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...Lovesick Moore brought many touches from his own experience: he spent 17 years in the office of one shrink or another, trying to come to terms with a childhood that was more than unhappy. His father was a railway electrician, his mother was a shorthand typist, and he grew up in a poor, row-house neighborhood in the London suburb of Dagenham. But poverty was not the problem: it was a clubfoot and a skinny, slightly shorter left leg, which sent him in and out of hospitals from the age of two weeks on. "Psychologically it was made harrowing...
...devices. Charles, a civil servant, is confined to his glass cubicle for most of the day. Charles' boss treats him to endless tales of a Dartmouth son--"He wants to be at Harvard, but he couldn't get in"--who is suffering from sexual maladjustment. Then there's the typist Betty, a Ted Kennedy look-alike much enamoured of Charles and salad dip recipes...
...Christian ellowship (1978--79) Pres., Harvard Political Review (1981) Student Advisory Committee, Institute of Politics (1981) Typist for The Crimson...
...Christian Fellowship (1978--79) Pres., Harvard Political Review (1981) Student Advisory Committee, Institute of Politics (1981) Typist for The Crimson...
Updike works at home in a semi-attached room that once housed an antiques store. He settles in there each morning by 9, usually writes in pencil on the backs of old manuscripts, then acts as his own typist. He tries to complete three pages a day: "I set that quota for myself many years ago, and it seems to be about right. It's not so much that you're overwhelmed by it, and it's not so little that you don't begin to accumulate a manuscript." After a late lunch around...