Word: loved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspiring to membership in the Establishment: "Sir, I am the brother of a Lord, I have married an Honourable ... I shoot and fish well. I have a booming voice and am very tall. I was a very good soldier. I am pro-hanging. I hate Nasser. I love the Prime Minister...
...Marlene smiled and stroked the head of her piano accompanist, Friedman Bachrach, 30, seated by her.) Q. So that's it? A. (Still smiling, she nodded.) Q. What else do you do besides sing and act? A. Counsel the lovelorn. Q. Why do you specialize so much in love? A. Because it is the only important thing. Q. Do you plan to write your memoirs? A. No, I am not an exhibitionist. Q. What do you fear most? A. Death...
...voice is smiling and seductive: "We'll go away together . . . Come away love, come away." The voice is big and bold: "Hey, you fool you! Why so cool you!" The voice is sad and soft behind real tears as the lights go down: "Only yesterday, when the world was young . . ." Whatever the tempo, Tin-Pan or torchy, the songs of Felicia Sanders throb with a strange, sinewy vitality in the basement's air-cooled dark. The mikes and the speakers and the slow-changing spotlights are superfluous. When Felicia sings, the silence beyond the stage is the silence...
...homosexual affairs of Proust that Author Painter chronicles were with Reynaldo Hahn. a talented pianist and composer, and Lucien Daudet. foppish son of the famed novelist Alphonse. From each, Proust tried to extract the unconditional love his mother had given him as a child; in each he was disillusioned. But it was the Dreyfus affair that deglamorized high society for Proust. Jewish on his mother's side, he courageously declared himself a Dreyfusard and helped to circulate the first petition for Dreyfus' release. Ironically, when Dreyfus was finally released, Proust found him as unappealing an ex-martyr...
...best, and the worst, that can be said of the tempestuous friar is that he loved God so passionately that he had very little love left for man. Biographer Ridolfi-a Florentine descended from both Lorenzo de' Medici, an early antagonist of the Dominican, and Giovambat-tista Ridolfi, one of the priest's loyal supporters-is clearly an admirer of Savonarola. He feuds pompously with previous biographers, argues expertly and with almost contemporary urgency in defense of the contentious martyr. The reader may reflect that the excesses of body and spirit against which Savonarola thundered were the underside...