Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like it and want me to finish it, send it back to me." Michelangelo also had his visions of idealized womanly beauty. The Morgan has a sketch of one such vision, perhaps (as some romantics would have it) a portrait of the only wom an he ever loved. She was Vittoria Colonna, the Marchesa di Pescara, a woman 17 years younger than he, and their "love" seems to have been merely one of "in tense spiritual friendship...
...troubled affair left almost everyone involved appalled. Says Mahoney: "How could she do this? She had a very comfortable background, good schools, good opportunities." Victoria seems mystified by all the fuss: "You know, it's weird, Because they want to put you in jail for ng in love. Like love is against...
Mary falls in love regularly, breaks up regularly and then takes to bed in deep depression, pulling the covers over her head and eating chocolates for several days. She has twice tried suicide. Mary's problem: she is extremely sensitive to rejection and lashes out at lovers for the smallest slight. That may not strike many doctors as a specific medical ailment. But Manhattan Psychiatrist Donald Klein diagnoses Mary's condition as a typical case of hysteroid dysphoria, a.k.a. "lovesickness." What's more, Klein thinks he has a cure...
...rejected for lack of evidence. Klein, director of research for the New York State Psychiatric Institute, is convinced that lovesickness is real enough. Says he: "These people, mostly women, are not true depressives or manic-depressives. They are so vulnerable that they are driven to repeat their love cycles over and over...
Charles Dickens burned thousands of letters while his sons roasted onions in their ashes, and Henry James destroyed 40 years of correspondence. Walt Whitman carefully tore pages out of his notebooks, altered the sequence of his love poems so that no one could figure out to whom they were addressed, and wrote in code the initials of his lovers...