Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affected a laugh so bloodcurdling that Actor Henry Irving imitated it for dramatic moments in Shakespeare's plays. He often signed his paintings with a butterfly armed with a scorpionlike tail. He inspired much of Trilby's demonic master villain, Svengali. His mistress-of-the-hour strutted nudely past his devout Episcopalian mother, neither one guessing that posterity would make James Abbott McNeill Whistler's mother the most renowned artist's model of all time...
Nursing a bruised ego and a gift for sketching, the 21-year-old Whistler embarked for Paris and the studio of French Painter Gustave Courbet. From Courbet he acquired his early brush strokes, his first model-mistress, Eloise, and a point of view: "Beauty is truth." This creed spurred the art-for-art's-sake movement with which an entire generation of painters and writers thwacked at the Victorian taste for the didactic, the sentimental and the morally elevating. From London (where he moved in 1859), Whistler deployed his canvases like troops in this avant-garde campaign. The fury...
...rally followed that night. On Friday night the Junir Prom took place, replete with Prom Queen and all the trappings. The fraternities made posters for the Navy football game, and a group of blazered, skimmered Penn humorists trotted out a she-goat with a sign saying, "Betty-Mistress of Bill." Bill, of course, is the justly famed goat. After an unsuccessful attempt at a "freshmen on the field" manuever--an old custom that this year's newcomers have been trying to perpetuate without any notable efficiency--the Penn spectators took up the various Quaker cheers and chants, which freshmen must...
Career Girl No. 1 (Hope Lange) is a Radcliffe grad who goes to work for a paperback publisher and in the evening takes a postgraduate course in premarital relations at the Plaza Hotel. When she discovers that the course only leads to a mistress' degree, she decides to concentrate on her career and eke out her love life with an alcoholic editor of teen topics (Stephen Boyd...
...where he becomes involved with bootleggers (Ruark says he had "a connection with Texas Guinan's brother, who had a connection in New Jersey"). After that, the author departs from his own life story and builds Craig Price into a villain who marries for money, fires his secretary-mistress and his best friend in a deal with a racketeering unionist, and beggars countless widows and orphans in a stock fraud-all without altering his own good opinion of himself. The odd thing is that Author Ruark seems to share that good opinion. "Cash" Price, the coldhearted moneyman, has most...