Word: regler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...educated Midwesterner who runs a "journalistic agency specializing in high fashion for women" in New York. Bellow devotes almost two-thirds of the 109-page work to her personal history. She is in the middle of her fourth marriage, but the only man she truly loves is Ithiel "Teddy" Regler, a stereotypically powerful diplomat...
...most luminous satellite is Ithiel ("Teddy") Regler, a foreign affairs expert slightly less renowned than Henry Kissinger but equally in demand for consultations in Washington and around the world. Teddy's Manhattan lawyer tells Clara: "He thinks no more about going to Iran than I do about Coney Island." When they were lovers in the '60s, Clara inveigled Teddy into buying her an engagement ring with an emerald stone, costing $1,200 that he could barely afford at the time. They did not marry each other, for reasons neither quite understands, but a small army of other people instead. "What...
...with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here ruminating in anger and the natural resentment of a victim. In calmer moods, she can recall listening to Teddy Regler talk about the decline of civilization and privately disagreeing: "I don't actually take much stock in the collapsing-culture bit: I'm beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul...