Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might recommend an excellent little restaurant slightly off the tourist track. The Peopled Wound is valuable not because it makes some intuitive new leap of insight but because it gathers in one convenient place most of what has been said and thought about Pinter. The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in the congested, polyglot and intensely familistic world of London's East End. His mastery of English contains elements of a quasi alien's act of assimilative will, an acute tuning of the ear to the language of success and survival...
Ermacora was less stingy with acquaintances or even strangers. A blind man in the Gare St. Lazare came in for a $10,000 windfall. A prostitute received $30,000 to buy an apartment for herself and her daughter. A tailor got an order for 25 suits, all picked up by men other than Ermacora; most found big-denomination bank notes tucked into the pockets. In all, his munificence came close...
Today Robert Ezechiel Crémieux, 70, a tailor by trade, is the last surviving descendant of the original group left...
Gentleman Georgy. Meredith was born in 1828 into an identity crisis. The son of a bankrupt tailor who married the family cook, he was brought up so properly by more respectable relatives that he came to be known as "Gentleman Georgy." There were further confusions...
Aggressive Prudery. Meredith was divided, above all, on the subject of sex. Like every Victorian author, he suffered, in Pritchett's words, "from the aggressive prudery of his readers." Much as he might have liked to strip down to bare revelations, Meredith, a tailor's son to the end, settled for a costume change, etherealizing passion and abstracting love into a distant, chaste project. Still, it can be argued that no novelist of the 19th century had more to tell about the destructive and self-destructive impulses that coexist with love...