Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become a catalyst for a cause," Reems, whose real name is Herbert Streicher, said. "I hope I don't become a martyr...
...Herbert J. Teison...
...marriage followed similar lines until her husband, the stuffy director of a spurious religious society, ran off. In her 50s, still attractively statuesque, Miss Herbert takes up with a kinky London publisher whose idea of a good time is to make her strike "love portraits" against his collection of mummy wrappings and poison rings. The activity gives her a calm feminine feeling "that for the first time she was beginning to understand 'mature...
Sympathy is not a necessary virtue in an excellent writer. In Miss Herbert, however, Stead reveals a touch of the sadist. She sets her victim up in revealing scenes and then dispatches her with hatpins of stainless prose. Miss Herbert expires totally unaware that she is leaking fatuous optimism, banalities and supercilious prejudice. In fact, her last recorded words are a threat to write an autobiography that "will open some eyes...
Readers who wonder why the author stretches Miss Herbert over 300 pages will also wonder why the book is difficult to put down. The reason is that Stead has constructed her trap with extraordinary craftsmanship and provided the perfect bait: a woman persuasively beautiful enough to arouse envy in the female and interest in the male...