Sublime

but it’s so hard to tell ages of people of the Oriental persuasion,”

She was on Fifth Avenue whenever she wanted to be, and she it was who rolled up, silky or furry, in the taxi, was assisted out, and stood, her next step nebulous, before the theaters of the thousand lights, before velvet-lined impossible shops; she it was. New York, for Maud Martha, was a symbol. Her idea of it stood for what she felt life ought to

Name plus purpose equals focus for me.

Nocturne: Blue and Silver—Battersea Reach,

Then they returned to America, to hatred, to Jim Crow, and to lynchings.

expurgated

But she was acidly disappointed by the price her double—“The Dark Lady of American Letters,” “The Sibyl of Manhattan”—exacted. She confessed that she’d hoped “being famous would be more fun,”9

Romance, an exploration of anxiety imported from the shadows of European culture, made possible the sometimes safe and other times risky embrace of quite specific, understandably human, fears:

children. In these petitions that Fermaglich rather dispassionately describes, we witness ordinary American Jews in the debasing act of succumbing to discrimination instead of fighting it.