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...stubborn attacks. It's hard not to wince at the thought of what little Lucy will be like when she grows up. The strident beginnings of a first-class shrew increase her "crabbiness" ("it's undemocratic if I can't be Queen") to a screeching insufferability. Patty's (Sara Jane Aronin's) character drips from her big blue eyes. An exasperatingly dump blonde, she skips from scene to scene with her trusty jump-rope tied to knee, waist or wrist wherever she goes...
...Sara Delano Roosevelt was a rich, idle, unintelligent widow who worshipped her son. Aged 50 when Eleanor and Franklin married, she had 35 years of relentless meddling left in her. It was she who bought the couple's houses (near or adjoining hers), furnished them with her own dreadful taste, staffed them with cadres of servants. When the six children began arriving, she contested Eleanor over every matter of upbringing. Franklin Jr. once recalled: "Granny referred to us as 'my children,' adding, 'Your mother only bore...
...that the legend springs less from the frantic Fitzgeralds than from Gerald and Sara Murphy, the subjects of this immaculate essay. The first hundred pages of Tender Is the Night evoke a world nearly as lyrical as Keats' vision of embalmed darkness and sunburnt mirth, and it was a world palpably created by the Murphys. For nearly a decade, artists of all sorts enjoyed a respite from their messy lives in the company of Gerald and Sara. Picasso, Stravinsky, Hemingway, Cole Porter-all were drawn to the couple before the Fitzgeralds arrived in France...
...Sara's flowers and her food were exquisite distillations of the seasonal crops. Gerald's daily attire, bought at a seamen's supply store, became the resort uniform: white duck trousers, striped jersey, the sailor's work cap that Scott called a jockey cap in the novel. What set the Murphys apart was a special, large-minded devotion to each other and to their friends. Dos Passos called the marriage "unshakable-everyone was at his best around the Murphys." Though she was notably candid with them, Sara in particular doted on her friends: "It wasn...
Crackup. Scott's antics exasperated him, once to the point where he banished him from Villa America for three weeks for tossing gold-flecked Venetian wine glasses over the garden wall at a dinner party. When Scott began ostentatiously "studying" the Murphys for his fiction, Sara wrote him: "If you can't take friends largely, and without suspicion, then they are not friends at all. The ability to know what another person feels in a given situation will make-or ruin-lives." But Gerald loved Scott at his best and "the region where his gift came from-when...