Word: clare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Aubreys have been taken up by Mr. Morpurgo, a generous Jewish millionaire who admired and employed the errant head of their household. Mother Clare, once a celebrated pianist praised by Brahms, no longer has to cope with dunning tradespeople invading her house in a suburb of South London. Eldest Daughter Cordelia has finally given up the violin, much to the relief of her mother and siblings, who believe, as Rose, the narrator, says, that "to play an instrument badly was as shameful as any crime short of murder." Rose and her twin sister Mary practice the piano daily and dream...
...like (Santa) to give a new hegemony to Professor Clare Dalton at the Law School." Dalton, the elves have learned, is Reich's wife...
...Clare Howard Worthing, England...
...Yeats' works about his favourite haunts, Trevor says there is "an instinct for places" and "the genius of the artist who is capable of using the parochial to illuminate the human condition." In excerpts from his poems we see the ruined abbey of Corcomroe in County Clare and, later, the forbidding Norman tower in Galway: "An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower" which Yeats made his summer house. And in "Reveries over Childhood and Youth." Yeats reminisces about Lissadell House, the home of a favourite Anglo-Irish family...
...classic documentary on English village life (Akenfield), and he permits no doubt about the answer. In this celebration of social roots, Blythe contrasts what he sees as the skittering superficiality of jet-age tourists with the intense thereness of stay-putters like the 19th century poet John Clare, who went mad when he had to leave the village where he was born. Blythe celebrates all nature except the open sea, which "makes us treacherous; it captures our senses and makes us faithless to the land." Poignantly recalling the turreted manors, the moats and the swans of his own East Anglia...