Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three Gershwin preludes, brilliantined up with double stops and Heifetz glissandi. Although the violin is probably the instrument least suited for jazz solos, Decca announced that Heifetz' next album will be Hexapoda-"five studies in Jitteroptera." Said Decca's President Jack Kapp: "If Bing can sing Ave Maria, why can't Heifetz do boogie-woogie...
...Erich Maria Remarque's Arch of Triumph: 750,000 copies...
...office boy, clerk, and, at 20, shorthand reporter of parliamentary debates, Dickens struggled frenziedly to climb out of poverty. His inspiration was his love for Maria Beadnell, a City bank manager's cold, flirtatious daughter, who aroused "whatever of fancy, romance, passion, aspiration and determination belong to me." When, after some two years' courtship, he realized that Maria was making a fool of him, Dickens buried her away as deeply as his childhood miseries...
...Children & No Eden. What Dickens called his "celestial or diabolical energy" emerged reinforced from his struggle with Maria. As reporter for the Morning Chronicle he stood, note-taking, in Parliament, until his feet swelled, raced over England in post chaises, sometimes wrote all night-and managed at the same time to pen his first, instantly successful literary works: Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers. He gave up journalism after he married Catherine Hogarth, an unambitious, lethargic Scot, who once remarked of the Garden of Eden: "Eh, mon, it would be nae temptation to me to gae rinning about...
Byron at 45. Thirteen years before Dickens' death he became obsessed by the belief that at 45 he was "capable of loving a young girl in the same idealistic whole-souled way that he had once adored Maria Beadnell." The object of his passion was fair-haired Actress Ellen Ternan, whom Dickens discovered backstage modestly weeping because her role obliged her "to show so much leg." Dickens established Ellen in a house near London. His daughter Katey wrote: "More tragic and far-reaching in its effect was the association of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan and their resultant...