Word: leah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egyptians suspect Townrow of being a British agent, and at times he wonders what's up himself. A love affair with a Jewess named Leah only further confuses him-Newby is not about to leave him so easy an out. Townrow is shot at, charged by a mob and jailed. In between disasters he is plagued by bad dreams and a virus with a 102° fever...
...ORBISON has long been a favorite for his bull voice. While many of his big songs--Pretty Woman, Sweet Dreams, Baby, Pretty Papers--work against his strength, the full-throttle heftiness of Running Scared, Crying, and most especially Leah, cannot be gainsaid...
Author Epstein, whose 1964 book Leah was a controlled whisper of a novel, is one of those rarities in American letters-the completely rounded writer, capable of handling the counterpoint that this theme necessitates. If his method is kitchen realism (down to the whirring refrigerator), his manner is as fine as the tinkle of dining room crystal. He does not try to bomb the reader out of his mind, nor is he out to revolutionize his conscience. Rather, he tells a story with grace and wit, taking the common-or universal-experiences of life as the basis for a work...
Psychiatrists offer multiple explanations for the phenomenon. Manhattan's Dr. Leah Schaefer claims that homosexuals gravitate toward superstars because "these are people they can idolize and idealize without getting too close to. In Judy's case," she adds, "the attraction might be made considerably stronger by the fact that she has survived so many problems; homosexuals identify with that kind of hysteria." Agrees another Manhattan psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence Hatterer: "Judy was beaten up by life, embattled, and ultimately had to become more masculine. She has the power that homosexuals would like to have, and they attempt to attain...
...neighborhood tough during his boyhood in Champaign, Ill., Richards got religion when he started going with a girl who "wanted a Christian boy friend." After high school, he attended a small church school in Virginia, where he was a star athlete, and where he met and married Mary Leah Cline (they have three teen-age children). He then transferred to the University of Illinois, where he showed equal proficiency in the vaulting pit and the classroom. Armed with a master's degree in philosophy, Richards competed in track meets, meanwhile delivering sermons around the U.S. and teaching...