Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressed by the businessmen's polite and meticulous ways. Says Grieves: "When I talked to a Japanese executive, he usually had an assistant there to handle all the details." The cover story was edited by Senior Editor George Taber and written by Associate Editor Christopher Byron. Says Byron: "The Japanese have built their entire culture on contradictions, but at the core is the notion that teamwork pays dividends. It's an idea that most Americans are now ready to relearn...
Segovia, to the north of Madrid, seems to have remained firmly rooted in the distant past. Its two principle attractions would probably have inspired Ruskin, Swinburne, or Byron: a Roman aqueduct in working order and the Alcazar, an ancient fortress. Around these lie Gothic churches and Moorish ruins. Segovia includes none of the artificial modernness effected in Madrid or Barcelona: it is simply a small Spanish town in an arid wilderness...
...Christopher Byron. Reported by Jonathan Beaty and Gisela Bolte/Washington, with other bureaus
...Remarks are not literature," said Gertrude Stein. And information is not drama. Childe Byron displays the industry of an ant and no discernible intelligence...
Dying of cancer at 36, Byron's daughter Ada (Lindsay Crouse) conjures up the ghost of her father to justify his life. The poet (William Hurt) discourses on incest with his half sister, bisexual promiscuity and sodomy, all with disconcerting jollity. Justly praised for his film work in Altered States and Eyewitness, Hurt has scant headroom in this bombette of a play to do more than parade his grand good looks. Crouse fetchingly adorns the evening with passion and perspicuity...