Word: litted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel Couples, John Updike was also tearing down facades, capturing the heavy breathing of the Protestant middle-class and other suburban satyrs and nymphs. "Adultery lit her from within," he wrote of one character, "like the ashen mantle of a lamp, or as if an entire house of gauzy hangings and partitions were ignited but refused to be consumed and, rather, billowed and glowed, its structure incandescent." Overwritten, perhaps, but in 1968 sex was a particularly American theme. As another Updike character said, "We're trying to break back into ((hedonism)). It's not easy...
...Lit. & Arts B-71. "Jazz: An American Music." Graeme Boone...
...Lit. & Arts A-52. "Classical Greek Literature and Fifth-Century Athens." Gregory Crane...
...Lit. & Arts B-35. "The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture and Ceromonial at the Ottoman Court." Guiru Necipoglu...
...Lit. & arts C-59. "Warfare in Greek Literature and Art." Emily D.T. Vermeule...