Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge, English; Robert A. G. Monks, Cohasset, History; William M. Calder, Concord, Latin; Herbert B. Olfson, Dorchester, Economics; Daniel J. Collins, Jr., Haverhill, Chemistry; John F. Wilson, Hopkinton, Government; Richard C. Hirschhorn, Longmeadow, Biology; Jaroslaw Bilinskij, Milton, Government; Robert D. Papkin, New Bedford, Government; Martin A. Goldman, Newton, Economics; Stephen J. Healey, III, Newton, Biology; Jordan Joseph, Roxbury, Biochemical Sciences; Kent W. Frederickson, Saugus, English; Lyman E. Sproul, Jr., Saugus, Biology; John T. Bethell, South Essex, English; Jonathan Ketchum, South Natick, Music; Michael C. J. Putnam, Springfield, Classics; David S. Feingold, West Newton, Biochemical Sciences; Sorgel P. Sorokin, Winchester, Biology...
...Runaway Puritan." After catching her in flagrante delicto in the doll house, Stephen Monk walks out on his wife Jane and into an oncoming truck. While he convalesces at the home of his Quaker foster-aunt outside Philadelphia, his whole life flashbacks before his eyes...
...world's standards he is a rich dead beat who has never done a lick of work in his 36 years. Born in America and educated in England, Stephen goes to Berlin in the '20s as "a runaway puritan." There he samples "every kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes...
...Golden Girl. Elizabeth Rydal is also on the rebound, not from ennui, but from a dead lover. She is busy on a novel about an "orphan of the Saxophone Age." Stephen marries Elizabeth, but the relationship is marred by Elizabeth's dedication to her first love, "this wretched novel-I'm so heavy with it, I feel sometimes as if I could scarcely drag myself upstairs." Stephen not only strays into an illicit affair, but also dabbles in homosexuality. Elizabeth, who makes a cult of "understanding," forgives...
...When Stephen meets and sleeps with Jane Armstrong, an all-American girl whose golden skin "you almost never see except on the bodies of idealized nudes on semipornographic wall calendars," First Wife Elizabeth accommodatingly dies of a heart attack. But the strain of living with a growing boy in turn proves too much for Second Wife Jane, and she takes to the Hollywood doll house...