Word: leda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Believe the Heart is the 497-page study -a good deal more interesting than the people it presents-of the slow maturing of Leda Fillmore, and of her relationships with 1) the memory of her dead husband, 2) her newborn son, 3) a difficult mother-in-law, 4) a wise obstetrician, 5) a somewhat crass young lawyer, 6) off-stage troubles in the steel company she has inherited. She marries the lawyer, who is inadequate as a substitute for her first husband, and wins the helpful advice and abiding friendship of the doctor. In the long run she is glad...
...observed distinctly, not only due to the lyric vapour in which he so often drowns, but also because of his non prehensible morphology, the contours of the Venusberg, one of the last mountains ascended by Wagner, . . . are much more difficult to delimit. . . . You will see Louis II, Venus, Leda, the Swan, Sacher Masoch and his wife, Lola Montez. You will see the Three Graces, with so many graces attached to their anatomies that it is incredible...
...accompanied the Reich Leader through the exhibition. Almost anywhere else in the world Terpsichore would be considered the kind of thing to put on a beer ad calendar. Not so in the new Germany. Last week the Munich show's 1939 sensation was Paul M. Padua's Leda With the Swan, equally beerotic...
...discovery that his wife is deceiving him enables Hendrick to escape from her without ending his sense of responsibility toward his children. He worries over business, sees a strike in the factory, feels himself going to pieces when he finds Leda again. Learning that she loves him, he finds happiness for the first time in his introspective life. During their Manhattan idyl, Hendrick's wife sets detectives after them as Leda is recovering from an abortion. They flee to Europe, are appalled to discover that Hendrick's 10-year-old daughter, Margot, is traveling on the same boat...
High point of Chance Has A Whip, describing the delicate relationship of father, mistress and daughter, has a muffled, tragic quality that recalls the best writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The disapproving lady who has charge of Margot frowns upon her intimacy with Leda and her father. When Hendrick, apologizing for the trouble his daughter causes his mistress, casually remarks that she is not a very attractive child, Margot overhears him. When, to make up for that cruelty, they become more attentive and tender with her, their days are darkened by a terrible conviction that she has surprised them together...