Word: jameson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen a pressing in months. He was living on the income from a sinecure given him by a sympathetic Republican governor, in a dingy Back Bay apartment. That night, standing in the front parlor of O'Brien's Funeral Home, reeking of liquor, with a flask filled with John Jameson's in his pocket, he was living testimony to the fact that a Boston Irishman couldn't make it in Brahma society...
JOURNEY FROM THE NORTH by Storm Jameson. 792 pages. Harper...
...past 50 years, Storm Jameson has published some 40 novels, ranging from expert entertainments to books worth reading twice. In this autobiography, she demonstrates once more her considerable talents for evoking place and time, as she sketches the literary and political scene in England and Europe since World War I. There are flashing glimpses of the famous-H.G. Wells, Walter de la Mare, Jan Masaryk-as well as of obscure middle-European writers fleeing Nazism whom she tried to help. There are the sights and sounds of cities in crisis-Munich, Prague, Vienna, Budapest-as well as the bare...
...Miss Jameson has produced what may become a minor classic of feminism. She tracks the single-minded drive essential to a woman who insists on being more than a private person, even though she understands all too well the peculiar costs to herself and to those she loves. The slow flowering of the "necessary egoism" of the born writer gradually enabled Storm Jameson to avoid domesticity, slough off a first useless husband, sporadically put aside a much-loved child in favor of work, and deliberately miscarry another. Egoism mastered diffidence, countered improvidence with "confidence in my strength and cleverness...
...looking back at 80, Storm Jameson is aware of a continued fault. "Always the same failure," she writes, the failure "to love enough...