Word: leah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garrets and grandeurs of Bohemia. First stop, Spain: guitars, poverty, bullfighters, the inevitable gypsy temptress ("She kissed him. He kissed her. It was alive in him, and urgent"). Next stop, Paris: chimney pots against the sky, artist's life, nightlong arguments, more temptresses ("On the sixth day when Leah came to the studio he took her brutally in his arms. 'Damn you,' he shouted and gave her a long cruel kiss"). Last stop, the Riviera: clear sunlight, indolent and pagan bathers, the evening of life. Along the way are conducted side trips to World...
Alex Tamkin stayed close to the theme of Ansky's tragedy for his English libretto, produced what the brothers call "a story of Romeo and Juliet set forth in ... cabalistic symbolism." An impoverished young Talmudic scholar named Channon wants to marry Leah, the daughter of a practical bourgeois type who thinks his daughter can do a lot better. Torn with love and bitterness, Channon studies mystic books, tampers with the supernatural, and is struck dead. But he returns as a dybbuk, to inhabit the body of Leah herself, just as she is presented with her wedding veil...
...office in Houston's Shell Building boasts gleaming brown morocco leather furniture, a five-foot tinted photograph of Glenn McCarthy, five bronze-plated baby shoes (he has four daughters: Mary Margaret, 18, Glennalee, 17, Leah, 15, Faustine, 12, and an eleven-year-old son, Glenn Jr.) and Miss Houston of 1945. The ex-Miss Houston, an imperious and well-endowed young woman named Averill Knigge, serves him as secretary...