Word: bluestockingism
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From time to time Duffy escapes from her book-strewn office to interview an author. She visited Vladimir Nabokov in Switzerland ("warm but very formal-we met at meals"); Saul Bellow in Chicago ("difficult, a very private man who doesn't like to talk about himself"); Mary McCarthy in...
THE REAL PROOF of an all--too--worldly' morality lies in Dominique Sanda's Micol. Showing herself as an almost incestuous alter ego to Helmut Berger's Alberto, her cool beauty fails to mask a festering decadence that has been epitomized by Berger's own performances in Visconti's The...
Cerebral Lovers. The father, known as P.Q., is a freethinking, argumentative intellectual who runs a tatty laundry, more or less when he feels like it. His wife is a pliant, childlike female, very like their eldest and prettiest daughter, Irene. Most of the novel is devoted to Urie, who is...
"Magnificently ugly," the young Henry James summed her up in 1869, "deliciously hideous." But in the ugliness of "this great, horse-faced bluestocking," James admitted with some awe, "resides a most powerful beauty . . . and sweetness-a broad hint of a great underlying world of reserve, knowledge, pride and power."
>Elisa, Napoleon's eldest sister, was a shrewd, bald bluestocking with "the soul of a libertine in the body of a spinster" and only two claims to fame: 1) she made a fortune selling marble busts of her brother, and 2) to preserve her properties, she turned traitor and...