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Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin was indisputably the greatest golf writer of all time. Reading Darwin, one is transported into the magical pageantry of a bygone era: the enfant terrible Bobby Jones dominated the game and the former caddy Walter Hagen with his thick-skinned eyelids and brillantined hair was lauded as "Sir Walter" by reverential galleries...
This year marks the centennial, or as the British say, centenary, of Darwin's birth in Downe, Kent where young Bernard saw much of his famous grandfather, Charles Darwin, who died when...
...whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the sense and hands... We may also infer...that if men are capable of a decided pre-eminence over women in many subjects, the average of mental power in man must be above that in woman. --Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation...
...Carter was given a set of Guy de Maupassant's books. He read them all. He pursued Thomas Hardy's works. As he grew he took educational side excursions like Hitler's Mein Kampfand Darwin's The Origin of Species. Carter and his wife studied a bit of art history, and of course he read much of the literature of the South, William Faulkner being a principal source. Like John Kennedy, Carter had fun along the way too. He has read with some relish, he confesses, most of the James Bond spy thrillers...
Will a reader, then, believe in salvation-by-adultery when proper Dr. Winters finally thaws with Alexia Reed, 35, who boasts "remarkable reddish-gold hair, green eyes, and a smacking style"? Hardly. But by then there's been a lot of lively conversation about Homer, Proust, Darwin and parenting, and Sicilian temples. Everybody talks just beautifully on Seton's bus. "The answer to the problem of alienation, to the difficulties of building a sense of community," she writes, "may be to put people on buses." It's not a bad way to keep an amiable but wobbling...