Word: victor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Victor Morrissey, 50, is in Britain to open a branch office. His wife is in a wheelchair in Scarsdale, N.Y. She lost both legs when, enraged and intoxicated after learning of her husband's philandering, she drove her car into a concrete abutment. The relentless tenet of The Bleeding Heart is that women always suffer and pay more than...
Even Dolores' name is a constant and heavyhanded reminder: the Latin dolor, for pain; durare, to endure. Victor means victor, the confident, satiated gladiator who pats his woman on the rump and rushes off to compete for glory and riches. He gets ample time to give his side of the story. The man is bright but no intellectual threat to Dr. Durer's fevered assertions and generalizations. Still, he may be too smart to challenge such filibusters as, "What I want, Victor, is to change the world ... To make it a place where women...
...admire her for this, even while she uses her vulnerability to assume the dual role of a martyred carrier of great truths and a political radical who believes "you have to be narrow when you're at war." Neither is it difficult to understand Dolores' need for Victor's warm body at the same time that she resents him. She has had it rough, as her copious flashbacks to a miserable marriage and family tragedies indicate. Life is messy, after all, and consistency is often the first casualty...
...messy novel about life's disorder does not work any better than a tedious novel about tedium. The Bleeding Heart can be entered in both categories. Its beginning reads as if D.H. Lawrence and Erica Jong had collaborated on a soap opera. Victor and Dolores first meet on a train between London and Oxford, silently swap glances and end up in bed at her apartment without exchanging ten words or knowing each other's last names. A sample description of this zipless encounter: "They clutched and caressed as their hearts pumped, as the sparks fell, as fiery charges...
...Victor Koufman '80, Harvard's main Revitalization Corps organizer, said yesterday Coll has "definitely tapped some sentiment here by challenging kids head on and making them think about important questions." Koufman added that they hope to get at least two buses for next week, in the hopes that more students will become involved...