Word: edith
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Fans of TV's All in the Family might remember what happened a few seasons back when Edith Bunker sent Archie's favorite chair out for reupholstering. Some modern artist spirited away the old seat, labeled it "A Genuine American Gothic" and put it on sale for $2,000. Now life has imitated TV art, and Archie's chair, along with Edith's, is headed for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Last week during a break in the show's taping, Producer Norman Lear presented the chairs to Carl Scheele, curator of the Smithsonian...
...writing short stories and, in remarkable time, had secured an influential patron (Rose Macaulay), an agent and some small renown. London literary life in the 1920s was both glittering and, with the right connections, easy to crack. "Inconceivably," Bowen wrote later, "I found myself in the same room as Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley...
...Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 186 pages; $14.95). In the England of 1906, when there was less leisure time and no television, Naturalist Edith Holden made almost daily entries in a diary and interspersed among them watercolor paintings of the birds, flowers and grasses she saw on her walks. The result, never before published, was a delicately assembled chronicle of a year in the Midlands that included the diarist's favorite poems and aphorisms. It is published here in a fine facsimile edition that pleases the mind...
Here in the Chicago area one Sunday evening, the 8 p.m. offerings on the VHF channels were the rape of Edith Bunker, Leslie Ann Warren's path to prostitution on 79 Park Avenue and a movie about mob violence in the trucking industry. Our choice? UHF with an old Esther Williams movie. Silly, but better for family viewing...
Wolff, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, recently published her biography of Edith Wharton, and Lane, a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, has written a study of Mary Beard, the American historian...