Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boss for the Boss. Kappel lives modestly for a man of his position and salary ($200,000 a year). He dresses conservatively, usually in blue serge suits. His modest four-bedroom house in Bronxville, N.Y. is distinguished only by its six telephones, which cost him nothing. He and his wife...
Is Don Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as "the World-that which needs my existence to save it at whatever cost to myself. He comes into collision with the real world but insists upon continuing...
Without some such mental preamble, the saga of Eugene Henderson, the quixotic hero of Saul (The Adventures of Augie March) Bellow's new novel, is apt to seem little more than the portrait of one of nature's fall guys, a well-heeled goof. When readers first meet...
Arnold Rothstein was a dedicated man. His clothes were plain and neat. He drank nothing stronger than milk, had a fierce respect for "good" women, including his wife. He would boast to friends about his wife's fidelity, liked phoning her from nightspots, when she was asleep at home...
Fisk differed from other robber barons in that he looked the part and played it with scandalous ebullience. Skinny, gloomy Partner Drew was a Bible banger who would retreat to his house, bar the doors and pray; but Jim Fisk was fat and jolly as a carnival pig. Part of...