Word: laboredness
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Dante's loss was literature's gain. To anesthetize his lacerated pride and evaporate his boiling anger, the idle exile seized upon a project the busy politician could never have accomplished: night and day for at least eight and perhaps for 20 years, he labored to produce his...
On Dame Edith, Dame Edith is less severe. On her own evidence, she was a mortally serious Christian and a ferociously committed artist, a childless woman who lay in her bed and labored every day for six hours a day, all year for more than 40 years, to bring forth...
World Town Meeting. In Europe and the U.S., television's showmen labored to exploit Early Bird's versatility. At their best, the programs were as moving and immediate as a closeup of Houston's great Surgeon Michael DeBakey repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva...
Moreau has a Belgian's gift for morose images ("the silence massed there like a dump of faded echoes") and the surreal ("He swam across stones, he crossed chromogeneous skies, fields paved with spines, the breath of cowards"). When his book was published in France last year, Paris'...
Destroyed by Success. In the next five years he toured Europe, juggled his love affairs, experimented with narcotics, pamphleteered against puritanism, fought with his publishers, lived off advances-and agonizingly, determinedly labored to produce Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, The Titan, and his autobiographical The "Genius." By 1916, Dreiser was the...