Word: winesburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What was it like to be married to Howard Hughes? Well, said Jean Peters, who underwent that experience for 14 years but now wanted to talk to the press about her return to acting in a TV version of Winesburg, Ohio, there was a bit of spare time. She studied psychology at U.C.L.A., she tried "the whole range of arts and crafts," she did door-to-door political polling, and she read textbooks for taping by the Braille Institute until "I couldn't stand the sound of my own voice any more." But what was it really like...
...Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson wrote of "grotesques," people who took a single truth to themselves, called it theirs and tried to live by it. "It was the truths that made the people grotesques," Anderson said. Once embraced so singlemindedly, any truth "became a falsehood...