Quotes from Meryle Secrest

the disappearance of an audience that had supported experimentation and made such works financial, as well as critical, successes. The decline of liberal-arts teaching in schools and colleges meant that the new audience was less cultured and intellectually oriented; wedded to television and movies, it wanted to be entertained rather than challenged.

Herbert Sondheim had written a note, packed up his clothes, and walked out.

The real point was that it was exactly like the film Love Affair," said Sondheim, whose frames of reference were often cinematic. "They decided they would not do anything but see in six months whether they still wanted each other. So they let six months go by and then decided that they did want to see each other, so she left her husband—even though she was a Catholic—and he left my mother.

To have one's helplessness and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ dependency taken advantage of by the person one loves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ soon produces an interlinking of love and hate. Because anger toward the loved person cannot be expressed for fear of losing that person Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ambivalence, the interlinking of love and hate, remains an important characteristic of later object relationships. Many

Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of intellectuals.