Word: corfu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anne-Marie, 18, has been dashing about Athens with her husband King Constantine, 25, visiting galleries, strolling hand-in-hand through the park, dining in public restaurants and attending scores of gala functions. At last the world's youngest and loveliest queen sailed with Queen Mother Frederika for Corfu. There, in Mon Repos, the royal family's summer palace by the sea, she will await the birth of her first child, expected some null in late June or early July...
Violet Stems. Schippers was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., but he has no taste for the sticks anymore. He is building a house on Corfu and keeps apartments in Rome and New York and, happily established as a princely bachelor, he avoids all thought of a permanent conductorship somewhere. When he first led an orchestra, he says, his legs "trembled like violet stems," but success has blessed him with massive assurance. Now, in eager pursuit of a future he scarcely has reason to doubt, he says that "it's a marvelous feeling to know that you know more...
This heady information was contained in a letter to Lawrence Durrell, when, at 24 and yet unknown to fame, he was a lonely and industrious apprentice novelist on the island of Corfu. What made him keep opening the letter and reading it again and again in the rain was the fact that it was from that self-acknowledged genius Henry Miller, 21 years older and not yet world-famous but already a coterie colossus dangerously engaged in living his autobiography in Paris. Indeed, the younger man regarded Miller as so great that he was "furious that people haven...
...first exchange of fan letters in 1935, a correspondence flourished between the two men for almost 25 years. This lively, well-weeded (but unbowdlerized) selection by Editor George Wickes will gratify members of the Miller cult and place the talents of Durrell in the scenes in which they flourished-Corfu, Belgrade, Alexandria and Provence...
...tour of literary themes and cultural scenes that have recently proved captivating to American consumers. It has a collection of bizarre travelers on a sea voyage (Ship of Fools), a love story between professorial January and a relentlessly teen-aged May (Lolita), and sightseeing trips through Venice, Corfu and Athens (Greece, after all, is the In place to visit). Despite all this shifting scenery, What a Way to Go never really gets moving. But thanks to Author Morris' gift for cleverness and crazy characterization, it does have its moments as a bookish tour de farce...