Word: lemuel
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...English novel was born in forgery. Robinson Crusoe never existed. Neither did Lemuel Gulliver or Pamela Andrews. Yet they all left detailed accounts of their lives and adventures, thanks to the intercessions of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Samuel Richardson. As readers grew more sophisticated, authors in England and the U.S. felt less obliged to offer fiction in the guise of fact. But the tradition of the imaginary autobiography has continued to attract notable writers from Dickens and Twain to Salinger and Bellow. In the right hands, the old trick of the sham document can still inspire belief and wonder...
...experience the most restorative face cream." Shortly afterward, Sears finds himself lilted--out on his ear without explanation. Distraught, he winds up in the basement of the apartment and has a very unexpected homosexual encounter with the building's elevator man. The world, it seems, is many for Lemuel...
Paradise is also an arabesque. But this time a bit of wonder seeps into the pattern. The chief spot in Paradise,Lemuel Sears, is a man technically old and clearly spry Primarily through his agency, the author takes his readers on a minor odyssey through the pattern, and this time we get to look closely at the marvelous decorations instead of just careening toward a hairpin turn...
...Lemuel Sears is "old enough to remember when the horizons of his country were dominated by the beautiful and lachrymose wineglass elm tree and when most of the bathtubs one stepped into had lions' claws." From his comfortable apartment on Manhattan's East Side, he regards contemporary life with as much equanimity as his traditional tastes and Protestant values will allow. But when a pond in his daughter's village is rezoned for dumping, ruining his weekend ice skating, Sears gets mad. He hires an environmentalist to fight the despoliation. He also, unexpectedly, begins an affair with...
...nation's pulse quickened, as "Freedom Summer" took on a national character. Demonstrations, legislation, burnings, beatings, jailings--it seemed to be everywhere, tearing at the fabric of American society. It was Harlem, then Rochester. Its flesh was the flesh of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Lemuel A. Penn. Freddie Lee Thomas, James Reeb and other fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined...