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...Manhattan's Eighth Street, cooked gourmet meals for him while he wrote, helped add to the slim support he was getting from his mother and from his teaching job at New York University, and above all gave him the sort of encouragement he needed to produce Look Homeward, Angel. Wolfe was an oppressive lover. He was sickly jealous, perhaps fearful that he might be counter-cuckolded by Bernstein, and so boorish that he constantly called her "my Jew" and made such entries in his diary as "Met Jew at 11:00." When he eventually cut himself off from...
...around Manhattan's Central Park), sat evening after evening drinking with him at the Chatham Walk, where Wolfe could feel the rumble of his beloved trains from the New York Central tracks beneath Park Avenue, and above all shaped Wolfe's raw, spontaneous, poetic prose into Look Homeward, Angel. In time he became alarmed as Wolfe's great fungus of words threatened to expand beyond control. Once, Perkins asked him to write a brief description of the hero's reaction to his father's death, and Wolfe came back within hours with thousands of words...
...week's end the delegates headed homeward. In their briefcases were schemes for an African development bank and an African economic council to coordinate tariffs and study currency problems. But their week had proved that, deprived of the threat of colonialism as the overall enemy, many of the new African states have about as many differences as causes in common...
From St. Francis Xavier, awaiting his lonely death on an island off the China coast in 1552, to Bishop James Walsh, suffering in a Chinese Communist jail in 1960; from young Samuel Miller, dying of fever on a ship homeward bound from Africa in 1818, to Missionary-Pilot Nathanael Saint, sinking under the spears of the Amazon's Auca Indians in 1956, brave men have looked to the great missionary to the Gentiles, himself no stranger to suffering. Paul knew the inside of jails around the Mediterranean. Before he died, almost certainly as a martyr, he was scourged five...
...full-fledged farmer when you get through with your job down in Washington," a guest once remarked. "Brother," beamed the President, "I hope, I hope." Such a hope has buoyed many a President since March 9, 1797, when George Washington at last made his way homeward through cheering throngs to Mount Vernon. But as Washington was the first to discover, obscurity is impossible for an ex-President. Though Washington settled back easily into his planter's life, visitors thought nothing of inviting themselves to dinner, and Mount Vernon's twelve bedrooms were rarely empty. Not even death removed...