Word: hearn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...epicenter of hedonism is New Orleans -- and, just for the record, no one from there ever called the place the Big Easy or pronounced its name "N'Awlins." The late 19th century writer Lafcadio Hearn rhapsodized about the city's sensuality -- "her nights of magical moonlight, and her days of dreamy languors and perfumes." He was even moved to compare its delicious decadence to "a dead bride crowned with orange flowers -- a dead face that asked for a kiss." Actually, the place is a lot livelier than that. It is a seething agglomeration of jazz halls, Zydeco joints...
...getting Thanksgiving dinner from the Canadian club," said Taryn L. Hearn '95, explaining that Canadian Thanksgiving was yesterday as well...
Quindlen is at her best writing about the dislocations of growing up, the blows a child does not see coming. Maggie's best friend, Debbie Malone, suddenly takes up with a precocious tramp named Bridget Hearn. "There are things that I'm interested in now that you're not that interested in," announces Debbie. "Maybe we're maturing at different rates." Maggie's pretty cousin Monica, a few years older, "has to marry" that summer and seethes with resentment at Maggie's brains and freedom. "You're worse than everyone else because you pretend to be so good," she explodes...