Titan, The
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Titan, The, novel by
Dreiser, published in 1914 as a sequel to
The Financier and based on the career of C.T. Yerkes, a flamboyant financier of Philadelphia, Chicago, and London.
Frank Cowperwood, having married his mistress Aileen Butler, establishes a home in Chicago. Their history becomes known, and they fail to make their desired entry into society, but Cowperwood's business affairs prosper. After successful speculations in the grain exchange and in stocks, he effects a great merger of the growing city's public utilities, and acquires a tremendous fortune, as well as political power and prestige, through his streetcar business, his gift of an observatory to a university, and his fine collection of paintings acquired during trips to Europe. Meanwhile he is dissatisfied with Aileen and pursues other women, arousing her bitter resentment. Once she physically attacks a current mistress, but even this cannot restore her control of him, and she becomes increasingly coarse and dissipated, taking several lovers herself. When he establishes a palatial residence in New York City, Cowperwood discovers his “ideal” in Berenice Fleming, the beautiful, sensitive, and innocent daughter of a former brothel keeper. Although he is twice her age, he succeeds in winning the girl's love, and she accompanies him to Europe after he is finally ousted by his Chicago competitors.
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Berenice Abbott Photography Exhibition
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 11/18/1998; ; 700+ words
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A portrait of Berenice
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/18/1991; ; 700+ words
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min CONTEST: WIN A $2,500 BERENICE ABBOTT PRINT FROM THE CENTENNIAL ARTNEWS.
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Keeping an eye on the city. (photographer Berenice Abbott)
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 2/1/1998; ; 700+ words
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Berenice Abbott's photographic chronicle of 1930s New York at D.C. museum.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/11/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...inspiration _ and rediscovery. When Berenice Abbott returned to New York...metropolis transformed. The city had blossomed in a robust new...comprehensive photographic record of the city. Between 1935 to 1939, Abbott...for Women in the Arts. ``Berenice Abbott: Changing New York...
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BERENICE TAVERAS, 68 ACTIVE IN SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/26/1990; 415 words
; ...the Evangelist Church in Wellesley for Berenice H. (McGonigle) Taveras, an active...and a former member of the Women's City Club of Boston. She leaves her husband...27,10:09 TAVERA26 Caption: PHOTO BERENICE TAVERAS
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Berenice Abbott
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Berenice
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Berenice city of ancient Cyrenaica: see Benghazi .
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Ptolemy II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Ptolemy I by his favorite wife, Berenice. Small and slightly built...king to Ptolemy's daughter Berenice Syra. After the defeat of...at Alexandria, making the city a brilliant center of art and learning; the city's lighthouse, the Pharos...
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Ptolemy I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and mistress, a niece of Eurydice, the girl Berenice (I), almost 27 years his younger. Berenice gave birth to two children, Arsinoë...In Upper Egypt, Ptolemy I founded the city Ptolemais. As satrap of Egypt, he clashed...
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Lisette Model
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...interested in. Moving to New York City in 1938 with her husband, Model was stunned by the city. There was a freshness to...premier photographer of New York City's dark underside, frequenting...talented photographers like Berenice Abbott. In 1942, her photographs...
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