Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...semimemoir, A Boy's Own Story, Edmund White came as close as anyone has to producing the Great American Gay Novel. Its depiction of sexual awakening was vividly specific, yet its emotional terrain -- initial delight leading to guilt and alarm at the strange new force in one's life -- might have evoked adolescence for almost any reader. The Beautiful Room Is Empty, a sequel that takes White into young manhood, is at once clumsier and much more ambitious. At times as pretentious as the title, derived from Kafka, it trots out a succession of irritatingly self-indulgent characters...
...blossoming. Set in the humid delta of the Pearl River, Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, better known in the West as Canton, seethes with enterprise. The Dongping Street free market is filled with stalls selling all sorts of food: fish swimming in tubs of fresh water, poultry, a greengrocer's delight of vegetables and fruits. Most important is a bountiful selection of grades and cuts of pork, which has been rationed in such huge cities as Beijing and Shanghai...
...highest civilization," wrote Emerson, "the book is still the highest delight." Well, not for Michael Milken, particularly since he is the book's subject. The controversial junk-bond financier reportedly offered to pay Writer Connie Bruck to give up work on her book about him and his investment firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. "I do not want it to be done. Why don't we pay you for all the copies you would have sold -- if you had written it," Milken suggested to Bruck after she began working on the project in 1986, according to an extract of the manuscript obtained...
...individual rights and expression, in reason, in the rule of moral law; a lust for self-celebration; a boisterous embracing of life, underlain by a fearful morbidity; a sentimentality grounded in iron. Of such things is America made, and so are Jews. Above all, Jewish and American tradition delight in looking at oneself critically. If there are any tribes in history more mired in self-study, my heart goes out to them...
Robyn Fass is a delight as Alice Park, Susan's quirky, sometimes naive confidant. Fass takes the stereotypical character of the naive bohemian and turns her into a fascinating and realistic person, the perfect complement to the Lear-ish Susan. Fass captures Alice's precarious perch on the line between comedy and cynicism. The audience simultaneously shudders and laughs as she whips sarcasms and insults at her hapless student Dorcas Grey (Sarah Stevenson). Fass knows how to develop a character, and she has the timing and the bearing of a classic comedian, the ideal safety valve in a complex tragedy...