Word: vies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the belle to the nuclear epoch, the world recalled in both these books seems remote from history. Mellons, Fricks, Altmans and Rockefellers vie for Giorgiones, Titians, Bellinis and Botticellis, while offstage monarchies disintegrate, nation-states aggressively come of age, and men are pulped in the trenches. There is a certain amount of glee in reading about rich innocents abroad who retained Berenson as an art consultant without knowing the extent of his ties to Duveen and other dealers. If the "squillionaires," as Berenson called them, did not always get what they paid for, they at least got royal treatment...
...when even the Church is skeptical of miracles, it's not easy being a miracle worker. Especially if you're an atheist. Just ask nonbeliever Vie Mathews (Tom Conti), whose own divine favor--or is it just luck?--is making his life miserable...
Rhodes scholarships aren't to be taken lightly. The stakes are high, and the competition intense as students around the country vie for one of the most presitigious academic awards around. But one Eliot House resident will be laughing as he enters the final round in the selection process...
...epileptic patient . . . a black-haired youth with greenish skin . . . That shape am I, I felt, potentially." This was the image of monstrosity that is only a chromosome away. Henry added another kind of apparition. In The Turn of the Screw he presented a governess and a ghostly valet who vie for the soul of a living...
...going to meet one day..." Of course, the results are disastrous and Nola should know better than to have expected civility on such an occasion. Still, Lee can be forgiven almost any such questionable twists of plot because of the wickedly clever insults that fly as the men vie for Nola's attention...