Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face is tearful and puffy. But the rest of the characters, and all the scenery, is a catalogue of splendor. Truffaut's nineteenth century Halifax is magnificent inside and out, from the lichen-crusted castle battlements to the oak interiors of the houses and the cozy Victorian bookshop. The climax of the film--in Barbados--is more exotic, but here too the emphasis is on beauty, even when the camera moves in crowds of ragged African children and not in the bougainvillea-bedecked inner garden of the Governor-General's home...
Mandrake's Books is now the only bookshop in the Harvard Square area offering discounts to teaching academics on a limited basis...
Christopher Robin, of course, is Christopher Milne, who today confronts the world as a shy, bespectacled, 54-year-old bookshop owner and amateur carpenter from the British provinces. If his life has not exactly been blasted by Pooh and Mummy, it has had its melancholy moments, and with both parents now dead, he has written a book. This is the age of dreadful domestic disclosure (Elliott Roosevelt nipping at Eleanor in the guise of historian; Nigel Nicolson vicariously reveling in the vagaries of V. Sackville-West). A friend of Pooh therefore at first approaches Enchanted Places the way Piglet crept...
GORDON CAIRNIE is not a proper subject for an obituary. He was much too alive ever to die, and much too real to be written about in the usual obituary words. The New York Times said after he died that the Grolier Bookshop was an American equivalent of Shakespeare and Company, and that Gordon was like Sylvia Beach. A lot of people who never knew him must have believed that, but of course it wasn't true. Gordon was a tough old Canadian, not a purple-ascotted Left Bank aesthete...
...recent conversation at the atavistic Grolier Bookshop, a Signet initiate explained to me that "poems are like jewels." Is Rich a lapidary? Jewels fall in the pockets of the wealthy. Does Rich write for the ruling class? Thomas Goodkind...