Word: dorset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different game: to produce a travel book with the confident style of the 19th century and the elegiac soul of a modern spiritual nomad. Glazebrook's reflections on the past are a form of detachment as real as the thousands of miles between him and his family in Dorset. Writing about other travel writers distances him from his own encounters on the trail. By ranking subjectivity above literal facts, he finally removes himself to that lonely height where the artist, not the soldier-adventurer, is hero. "Writing the book," he thinks before catching the train home. "That...
...scenery is also delightful, with locations switching from Dorset, England to sparkling Mykonos to war-ravaged Beirut. The chilling shots of a PLO training camp bring home the Middle East conflict more sharply than any news report--and that more than justifies the sometimes puzzling plot...
...remembered now as nothing more than a Trivial Pursuit stumper were it not for the efforts of Paul Lazarus. Working closely with the Porter estate, director Lazarus reconstructed the show from the original manuscript, returning "You Never Know" to its original "chamber musical" conception for the 1982-83 Dorset Theatre Festival in Vermont...
...weekend Mr. Baker had me drive him to Dorset, Vt., where he was to judge a play competition between one-acters written by former pupils of his. The other judges were poet Alfred Kreyin borg and critic, wit and, in Baker's opinion, arch-poseur, Alexander Woollcott. Just as Mr. Baker had told me he would, Woollcott--even out in the sticks--insisted on holding the curtain 15 minutes, so he could make a dramatic appearance, swooping down the center aisle, complete with opera cloak and gold-topped walking stick...
...diligent as a Dorset peasant, Hardy stuck to his desk and produced 14 novels and three volumes of short stories in his first 28 years of full-time writing. After 65, he became the Grand Old Man of English letters. The Prince of Wales came to tea. Lawrence of Arabia gave Florence a ride in his sidecar. Hardy's steadily growing prestige and popularity would have seduced most pessimists to optimism. Not Hardy. He simply turned increasingly from tragic fiction to tragic poetry: "After love what comes?/ A few sad vacant hours,/ And then, the Curtain...