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Treacle Christian (the name alone too obviously signals Donleavy's intent) is a penniless, Bronx-born expatriate who returns to New York from Europe where he has been highly schooled and polished. The inadvisability of his return is made quite evident at the beginning when his wife, a delicate hot-house beauty, dies during the ocean crossing. The implication is that rare and fine things do not travel well, especially to New York...
...high life, but they give it only a faded ratty elegance. Glass ornaments flash everywhere -- the powder jars and pin bowls, gold cherubs and a chandelier that looks like an upside-down wedding cake are cheap reminders of now hollow dreams. For at 70, she is unmarried, childless, and penniless, and the mauve colored gauze through which she views her world cannot protect her from...
Morgan offended the pianist-not just because "one of the richest men in the world" came late to a dinner-recital party but because he did not pay a cent to hear Rubinstein play. Arthur was then penniless. What Rubinstein remembers today is the financier's nose...
...give it only a faded ratty elegance. Her dresser-gleams with mirrors, powder jars and pin bowls; glass ornaments flash ever-where--curlicue knicknacks, gold cherubs, and a chandelier like an overturned wedding cake, are cheap reminders of now hollow dreams. For at seventy, she is unmarried, childless, and penniless, and the mauve colored gauze through which she views her world cannot protect her from...
...came to the U.S. as a 14-year-old refugee. My parents' property had been stolen by Austrian Nazis, and we came as penniless immigrants. Today, 34 years later, I can look back on a fairly successful life as a U.S. citizen. This country has been good to me and my family...