Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is also Irving the physical phenomenon. He has dark, heartthrob good looks. Though he seems slight-he is 5 ft. 8 in. tall and 155 lbs.-his bulk is imposingly carried in a wedge from shoulders to waist. Not since Hemingway has a well-known American writer worked as hard on his body as he has on his prose. Rarely a day goes by when a bout at the typewriter is not followed by a roll on the mat with his sons, a three-to six-mile run or a session bench-pressing weights until he tires...
Before going abroad, Irving took a course in German at a Harvard summer session. There he also learned the language of love. At a Cambridge party, the expatriate-in-training met Shyla Leary, a tall, dark-haired student of engineering and physics at Radcliffe. Says Shyla: "I was going out with a Saltonstall at the time. But I passed a bedroom and saw John alone sitting in his shorts and playing a banjo. I said to myself, 'That's for me.' " She had to wait a few months...
Hunted for their meat in some countries and crowded out of favorite hideaways by an expanding human population, no more than about 2,000 of the animals still roam freely in the wild. The dark, white-stockinged creatures are the world's largest wild cattle. Fully grown, a male gaur may measure 6 ft. from hoof to shoulder and weigh nearly 2,000 Ibs. Perhaps wisely, no one has really ever bothered to domesticate the beasts...
...Mottetti, stylishly performed by Mezzo-Soprano Janice Felty and Pianist Edward Auer, recalls the late Ital ian composer Luigi Dallapiccola in its lyricism and sophisticated melodic charm. Harbison sets dark, vivid images from Montale's Le Occasioni (1939) allusively, often employing the familiar device of musical tone painting. In the ninth poem, for example, the mezzo sings of a darting green lizard, and the piano responds with a scaly slither. But the music is much more than a literal transcription of the poetry, for Harbison has given it a deeper layer of meaning in transforming it into song...
...still sparing no detail, he gives his own story the Bishop treatment. "I reached into my sagging trouser pockets and pulled out a kitchen match," he writes of his first encounter, at age 14, with an unclad female in a dark room. "I struck it on my shoe and, when the flame flared, I held it high up between Tessie's thighs to ascertain the what and the where. For no reason whatever, the girl popped straight up in the air screaming." He barely graduated from the eighth grade and was fired from every job his father...