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Pressed Flower. The son of an avid shell collector, Connolly had a passion for classifying. He invented categories of style-for instance, mandarin (Samuel Johnson, Henry James, and all those who don't write as they talk, including, of course, Connolly). His lifetime hobby was drawing up lists of those who made literature what it is today, culminating in that half book, half catalogue, The Modern Movement. Connolly loved the sweeping judgment: "The greatest single poem of the first half of the twentieth century . . ." turns out to be the Four Quartets. "If there is one key book...
...might be expected, a few of the students interviewed, less than avid football fans, ignored the action on the opposite bank of the Charles...
...many ways, Peter Shaffer's meticulously crafted play helps to explain why London, not New York, remains the greater hub of theatrical activity. Shaffer is writing for an avid theatergoing public. "The English have a reverence for theater," he says. "They all want to be actors." Shaffer knows that audience viscerally. In this respect he resembles Noël Coward and Terence Rattigan, both of whom managed to write hits about such then queasy subjects as drug addiction (The Vortex) and homosexuality (Ross). Like them, Shaffer possesses an apparently flawless intuition about how much he can shock the audience...
Taber reports that Giscard, an avid and critical reader of the magazine, attacks transcripts of his talks with a green felt-tipped pen -and a precise feel for English nuance. Giscard's editing affected the stylistic polish of his answers but not their substance, and what the French President said proved to be of more than usual interest to his countrymen. His remarks in a recent interview with Taber, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan and Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers (TIME, Oct. 7) were widely reported and analyzed by the French radio and press. Such scrutiny...
...diary expresses an avid interest in other people. Anais portrays individuals according to their idiosyncracies--Dr. Max Jacobson, Martha Graham, and a waif named Nina, attracted by "Nin" as to an echo, among them--and societies according to the idiosyncracies of their individuals...