Word: weintraub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judie Weintraub...
...STANLEY WEINTRAUB...
...number of good reasons for Whistler's waspishness are suggested in this sturdy biography by Professor Stanley Weintraub, who has also written books about Oscar Wilde and G.B. Shaw. Whistler was sensitive about his size, uncertain about his talents and resentful toward an art establishment that refused to recognize him. Though he liked to see himself as a descendant of American Southern gentlemen, Whistler was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1834, the son of a West Point-trained engineering officer and a mother who, despite her North Carolina heritage, was a prototypical God-fearing Yankee...