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...love affairs would never have been put to paper. Heloise would not have written Abelard; Abelard would not have written back. Ben Franklin would have quashed his flirting wit; James Joyce his raging jealousies. There would have been none of the sublime torture of the letters of Swift and Vanessa; none of the zest of Franz Liszt...
DIED. Samuel Barber, 70, American composer whose lyrical music won him international popularity; of cancer; in New York City. Celebrated in his 20s for works like the Overture for the School for Scandal, he later won Pulitzer prizes for his opera Vanessa and for Piano Concerto No. 1. His grand effort, Antony and Cleopatra, was a rare failure for a composer who loved and understood the human voice and stood apart from avant-garde trends...
...cherishing friendships, with all the sacred personal values that friendships implied in Bloomsbury. "Life would split asunder without letters," she maintained in Jacob 's Room. Her massive correspondence shows her weaving a variegated web to hold it together. She pours out affection and admiration to her sister, Vanessa Bell, whom she wonderfully characterizes as a mixture of pagan goddess and Moll Flanders. She is ardent and extravagant to Vita Sackville-West, with whom she has a love affair and later slips into a "warm slipper" relationship. She is fondly exasperated and patient with Ethel Smyth, considerate to friends (like...
Revulsion, inhibition and the eventual declarations of feminine independence may all have been catalyzed by these early perceptions of the male animal. With the father's death, Virginia and her sister Vanessa establish a London salon, the nucleus of the elitist, eccentric Bloomsbury group. The coolly vitriolic tongues and flamboyant narcissism of the "Bloomsberries" mirrored streaks of casual cruelty and self-absorption in Woolf...
Rubbing elbows with the very rich also seems essential. They are different, especially in this book. They are called things like Topsy and Bootsie and Kiki. Folks around the office just have faces, but Vanessa "wore her long nose as if it were the mark of royal birth." Time must be spent learning to understand their odd way of bantering: "Daisy Valensky, you have the makings of a first-class bitch somewhere inside that glorious exterior." The untrained ear probably misses all kinds of nuances there. What to make of Daisy's typical dialogue: "Pants? What about your good...