Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their stride. The translation seems to be William Arrowsmith's and usually it works out very well, and every once in a while the actors make it too clear it is a verse translation. And jokes the cast occasionally added--like one Athenian's wife disdainful "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"--hit the spot. When one of the women asks one of the men if it isn't terribly hot outside, he answers, "It's not the heat, it's the tumidity." Not every laugh is as literate as that, but most of them will...
People are out there in the land of Midcult, My Not-So-Dear Editor, who should be warned against Marshall McLuhan (compared to whom "Spengler is cautious and Toynbee positively pedantic"). Buckminster Fuller (whose prose reads like Archie the cockroach with his capital shift working). And of course Tom Wolfe-"Parajournalist!" -who presumed to attack The New Yorker, the Golden Arches Macdonald calls home. Could a Macdonald enemies list be complete without those sparring partners Cozzens (James Gould) and Cousins (Norman), the author of By Love Possessed who was by Macdonald savaged and the editor of Saturday Review/World? (When Macdonald...
They only let the Brown team get ten points and yet, too dear...
...pure courage. Knowing he was ridiculed and despised, aware that whites would frustrate his plans, Shaw simply went ahead, surrounded by a shell of pride. He wonders where this grit came from, recognizes that his nature welled up from something deeper than race or family. He describes his own "dear brother" as "hush-mouthed. He made up his mind that he weren't goin' to have anything, and after that, why, nothin' could hurt...
...Bainbridge's ear catches the tang of Liverpudlian argot ("My word, we do look a bobby dazzler"). The sisters' petty quarrels are small excursions of humanity in straitened circumstances. When Rita learns that her churlish soldier is illiterate, her dismayed brain is soon assuaged by her emotions. "Dear God, she thought, running up the cobbled alleyway, if he was that unschooled, he would need her, he would want to hold her in his life." Bainbridge unwisely changes her novel into a standard shocker on the final pages, but the ones that matter come earlier -shocks of recognition...