Word: tenderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Cody is a tender and meticulous exhumer. Dr. Cody, a practising psychiatrist, has written Emily Dickinson's psychobiography; (a psychobiography is a psychoanalysis of a deceased person). He uses her letters and poems and previously unpublished family letters in lieu of what, if she were alive, would be her dreams and free associations. Dr. Cody is circumspect in his postulations; he comes to no conclusions without the corroboration of repetitive allusion in the poet's work, which he cites constantly. Frequency of allusion, symbol and metaphor is the key he uses to understand the dimensions of the problems...
Senior guard Jerry Hevern is the only interior lineman still feeling any serious pains from the Holy Cross game. Hevern is still limping with a tender knee and may be sidelined Saturday. If so, Bob Kircher will take his place at left guard on offense...
...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...
...Villa America and cleared a stretch of beach called La Garoupe. Gerald painted huge, careful canvases that are fascinating precursors of Pop art. But both the Murphys were more interested in a life of quality and beauty than in art. "The Divers' day," as Fitzgerald translated it in Tender Is the Night, "was spaced like the day of older civilizations to yield the utmost from the materials at hand and give all the transitions their full value...
...waffle irons, portable bathhouses and inflatable rubber horses. Fitzgerald was so awed by Murphy's taste that he thought it must apply to everything and consulted him on literary matters. Gerald did not really respond to his friend's work. Indeed, it was only on rereading Tender Is the Night years later that he recognized that pages and pages of detail had been lifted intact from his life...