Word: bluebeard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...teenage, 5-ft. 2-in. "dwarf" of this book first saw hard covers years ago in Shulman's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. A sort of peach-fuzz Bluebeard. Dobie consumes much of his one-track energy in the chase after females, and his main problem remains that of making himself acceptable to girls with developing measurements. Admits Dobie: "It used to make me pretty jumpy when a girl started getting her bust." Most of the young ladies live next door in a bad real estate buy that happens to be the only flat-roofed house in Dobie...
...contents of food packages my mother had sent me," he wrote in his vanity-published autobiography, Rogue of Publishers' Row, "I inveigled a fascinating storyteller among the older boys into spinning yarns for me. A chocolate bar was good for Jack and the Beanstalk; a banana would buy Bluebeard or The King of the Golden River . . . My friend, however, was a cold-blooded proposition; as soon as he got his fists on my food, he'd quit . . . Today the tables are turned. The yarn spinners...
...hero of Là-Bas is a novelist named Durtal, who is doing research into the monstrous life of Gilles de Rais, often mistaken for the original Bluebeard.*A dedicated researcher, Durtal himself dabbles in the same black arts that Gilles de Rais practiced- for De Rais, found guilty of murder and executed in 1440, seems to have attracted disciples in 19th century Paris. The core of their infamy is the bizarre and blasphemous rite known as the Black Mass, in which every imaginable obscenity is committed and the Eucharist itself is invoked to bring the celebrants closer...
...Bluebeard & Bluenose. Ever since it first appeared serially in Echo de Paris, the book has enjoyed a kind of scandalous celebrity among men of letters. Zola attacked Huysmans; Maupassant, Verlaine and others defended him. In 1924, the present publishers report, Là-Bas was is sued in the U.S. but ran afoul of John S. Sumner, industrious secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Publisher Albert Boni agreed to withdraw the book and destroy the plates. Now, a generation later, readers may well be of two minds as to who had the right of the matter - the celebrated...
Inside the castle where workmen unearthed something that gleamed whiter than stone, further digging uncovered a small heap of bones-the remains of 48 child victims of Brittany's Bluebeard...