Word: ithiel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wellesley-educated Midwesterner who runs a "journalistic agency specializing in high fashion for women" in New York. Bellow devotes almost two-thirds of the 109-page work to her personal history. She is in the middle of her fourth marriage, but the only man she truly loves is Ithiel "Teddy" Regler, a stereotypically powerful diplomat...
...most luminous satellite is Ithiel ("Teddy") Regler, a foreign affairs expert slightly less renowned than Henry Kissinger but equally in demand for consultations in Washington and around the world. Teddy's Manhattan lawyer tells Clara: "He thinks no more about going to Iran than I do about Coney Island." When they were lovers in the '60s, Clara inveigled Teddy into buying her an engagement ring with an emerald stone, costing $1,200 that he could barely afford at the time. They did not marry each other, for reasons neither quite understands, but a small army of other people instead. "What...
Clara and Teddy keep in touch, soul mates if not literal ones, and she, ever busier and more independent, attaches talismanic significance to the emerald ring: "In it Ithiel's pledge was frozen." She loses it, grieves, collects the insurance and then finds it wedged under her bed. The next time it turns up missing, Clara knows it has been stolen...