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Actually, Nagy not only took a whale-watching cruise off Cape Cod, he also completed a book of literary criticism on the work of Pindar, an archaic Greek lyric poet...
...about 3000, is bringing the Tubes and Joan Armatrading to town. And there's series of open-air concerts on the Boston Common, including Chicago, Linda Ronstadt, and a not to be missed evening with Mr. "Sexual Healing" himself, Marvin Gaye. And down near the beach at the Cape Cod Glesium huge sweat that it is, Elvis Costello is scheduled for August. Tickets have been on sale for a few months, so you may well be out of luck But if you cross your fingers, who knows, accidents have been known to happen...
...fueled jazz age, a young Edmund Wilson pursued Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay along a stretch of Cape Cod beach. "By the time we're 50," he promised, "we'll be two of the most interesting people in the United States." He kept his word. By midlife, Wilson was regarded as America's leading man of letters, a redoubtable scholar and a critic whose opinion could make or break a literary reputation. Critic Malcolm Cowley called him a combination of Dr. Johnson, Carlyle and Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century British explorer and linguist. Readers turned...
Sensing the disarray in his life and work, Wilson resolved to regroup. The former habitue of cheap apartments and rented rooms writes of buying a house on Cape Cod. He outlines a never-completed novel about lives in transition. There are amorous adventures and travels to Greece, Haiti and New Mexico. He continues to survey the literary scene with visits to a suspicious and embittered Evelyn Waugh, to a mourning John Dos Passos, "whose voice would seem about to choke or tremble," and to a Roman convent where Philosopher George Santayana "slept, in his plain single bed, in the consciousness...
...lamentation. The great vaulting windows are naked, the marble fireplace mantelpiece is shrouded, and the living room floor is scattered with empty packing cartons. In the direst exodus of their lives, Fanny (Marian Seldes) and Gardner Church (Donald Moffat) are retreating, year-round, to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. There, as Fanny puts it, with caustic self-pity, there will be "nothing but the gulls, the oysters...