Word: loved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song: 'He who does not feel this way should not ask us for love...
Soon after graduating from Amherst College, Gilbert fell in love with Elsie May Bell, daughter of Telephone Inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who was president of the National Geographic Society. When Bell offered Grosvenor a job on the Geographic, he took it (just to be near
Devil in the Flesh. A moving, French-made look at the pleasures and perils of adolescent love, with Gérard Philipe and Micheline Presle (TIME, March...
...vestiges of ... Episcopalian superego" and that it can only be cured by her indulging in a bit of homosexuality herself, when in charges Nuclear Physicist Paul Wilson (Character Wylie's nephew: no relation to Author Wylie). His dank hair is trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career of nuclear research...
What to do? Character Wylie reflects that all these human misfits are signs of "the land I love deteriorating, the world I adore growing ever more miserable." He feels "lonelier than God," exhausted by his "endless efforts to put a simple idea in some form that would perfuse skulls hardened against it." It is a rough weekend for a man who thinks he is dying: Yvonne, fired by her instincts, hammers incessantly on his bedroom door; Marcia leaves Paul, and he poises himself on the terrace ledge and threatens a 16-story jump into Madison Avenue...