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...Durham...
...movies from a lawn chair while the girls sat in the Volkswagen. It was either that or scrunch up in back like Charles Laughton on top of Notre Dame." Even her speech shows certain dramatic cadences. Describing her research in children's books, she intones: "There did Marilyn Durham learn what dynamite looks like...
...Durhams have never had any money and have made no plans to spend their windfall. They are classic American doers. Kilburn Durham's vaguely modernist paintings are exhibited in an Evansville restaurant. For years the couple were members of a Mortimer Adler Great Books Club, but their group outlived the eleven-year club syllabus...
Perhaps because she is so methodical, Marilyn Durham seems rather beguilingly unaware of her book's freshness. She likes to call it a western gothic and says that the squaw Cat Dancing is "an Indian Rebecca - there to give the hero a Past." She loves reading trash, has never met an Augusta Evans fan who didn't become a soulmate...
...Durhams are frank Anglophiles who have built an imposing half-timbered tower behind their house. In a neighborhood of housing-development bungalows, it is an astonishing sight. Marilyn Durham says that when Eleanor Perry writes to her describing things like the purple mountains of Monaco, "I sigh and look out at the clothesline." But she is gazing from an Elizabethan redoubt...