Word: edwardians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite words. Dailiness was his mania. The best of his realistic novels about hard life in North Staffordshire are triumphant patchworks of detail about people who worked in the fields or the potteries, their habits, routes and involuntary timetables. In his own life, even when he was a millionaire Edwardian novelist with a yacht and country houses, he wrote as many as 5,000 words virtually every day. The total result is practically incalculable. Margaret Drabble lists 84 "major" works-mostly novels and plays-but beyond that there are diaries, frivolities, criticism and endless journalism...
...later works, Impresario is a trifle. Its characters are types-Mr. Angel, the elderly financier, Mme. Goldentrill, the aging diva. Yet how boldly the types are cast, and how fresh the music. It was a good show, even though Director Frank Corsaro placed the action in the Edwardian era in a wasted effort to provide contrast with the Salieri. Sopranos Karan Armstrong (Goldentrill) and Ruth Welting (Miss Silverpeal) filled the theater with fine singing and fetching looks...
...spry Katharine Hepburn, 64, rode it round the Temple, the lawyers' compound in the ancient City of London. On location for Love Among the Ruins, a made-for-TV movie in which she stars for the first time with Laurence Olivier, 67, Hepburn shucked her heavy Edwardian costume for her between-takes exercise and accepted a welcome cuppa char. Katie plays a retired actress being sued for breach of promise by a young man and defended in court by her old beau, Barrister Olivier. Says Producer Allan Davis: "The actress, lawyer and young man spend the picture jockeying...
...radical social psychologists keep predicting, Public Broadcasting may go out of business as well. Among its best and most popular offerings have been series that, one way or another, examine that institution. First there were the Forsytes, then the Louds. Now there are the Bellamys, masters of an Edwardian town house in London and, to their way of thinking, masters of the known world as well...
...extraordinary number of people who had known or met him. Sir Roger Casement seemed the Edwardian era's parfit gentil knight. Handsome, beguiling, dedicated and quixotic, he spent his life, fragile health and meager income tilting not against windmills but against millstones: the brutal burdens loaded on colonialized peoples by their self-styled civilizers, not least upon his beloved Ireland. As far as his abilities were concerned, Casement was the kind of man who in other times and circumstances might have been an explorer, poet, or U.N. Secretary-General. As it turned out, this proud and eventually demented Irish...