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With thoroughness and grace, Hugo Vickers, a British critic and journalist, traces the answer back to Beaton's obscure beginnings and follows it to a precipitous summit. Cecil was the grandson of a blacksmith and the son of a timber broker. There was nothing to be done about ancestry, but the future was another matter. Young Cecil confided to his diary, "Even in my dreams I long to make Mummie a society lady and not a housewife...
Thomas Keneally, 50, is an Australian novelist (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith), playwright (Bullie's House), screenwriter (Silver City) and movie actor (The Devil's Playground). The subjects of his nearly 20 books are equally protean: Joan of Arc, the U.S. Civil War battle at Antietam, World War I armistice negotiations, exploration in Antarctica. His 1982 volume, Schindler's List, set off a literary tempest: although it told of an actual German businessman who saved some 1,300 Jews from the Nazis, the book was awarded Britain's prestigious Booker McConnell prize for fiction, eligible apparently because Keneally used novelistic...
Mishima's "Yoroboshi" and "Kantan": Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge, Saturday...
...good dentistry has not necessarily been good for dentists. As they lose their bread-and-butter work, filling cavities, the nation's 127,000 dentists are scrambling to fill the gaps in their practices. Some fear that they may be going the way of the blacksmith. Says Dr. Ted Gordon, 62, who has been practicing in Chicago for nearly 40 years: "We're one of the few professions in history that has done everything in its power to put itself out of business." Dental schools, which were expanding until the mid-1970s, are now cutting enrollments. Total enrollment is down...
...enterprising classmate of mine went to a local blacksmith and had another clapper made," Fox says. "Then he said it (the original clapper) would appear outside Hollis South, where he lived." That, Fox says, is what started the riot...