Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JEAN HALLIBURTON Greenville...
PRIVATE COLLECTION by Jean Starr Untermeyer. 295 pages. Knopf...
...after a family quarrel, Jean Starr decided to commit suicide. When she opened her bedroom window in Zanesville, Ohio, she was afraid to jump and compromised by trying to beat out her brains with a hairbrush. This serio comic vein runs throughout her new book, which describes a lifelong love affair with art and with artists, "those people who have been most meaningful...
Parading Lions. After the abortive suicide, the gawky adolescent girl was sent to a boarding school in Manhattan, where she soon met and married Louis Untermeyer, the brother of a schoolmate. Louis was then working as a salesman for his father's jewelry firm, but like Jean, he dreamed of escaping from Philistia to Bohemia. Both succeeded, Louis becoming an anthologist, poet, critic, and a man of many marriages-five in all, two of them to Jean. She plunged into music, poetry and the keeping of a salon, where she paraded such lions as Robert Frost and Edna...
Gruesome Exit. Jean's most traumatic and rewarding chore was the difficult translation into English of Hermann Broch's masterwork The Death of Virgil. Begun almost accidentally, it took years, and required her learning German almost from scratch and suffering almost as many birth pangs as the author himself...