Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COUPLES, by John Updike. One of America's most stylish novelists turns his lyric imagination loose on adultery and the search for salvation in a richly plotted story set in a New England small town...
...Guard squadrons were dispatched to Korea, and another is in Japan; last week 300 Air Force reservists began moving to Mildenhall, England. In the U.S., some other reservists are working too hard at their new military jobs to have time for much complaining. "Nobody goes around here wondering what he is doing and why," notes Master Sergeant Eugene Bostock, a member of the 941st Air Force Reserve Group at McChord Air Force Base south of Tacoma, Wash. "It's a good group," says Bostock, a grey-haired veteran of World War II and Korea. "But I'm not naive enough...
...richest man in England is so invisible that you undoubtedly have never even heard of him. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, who inherited a shipping fortune now worth almost $300 million, is 58 years old, but he has never made a public statement other than "I have no statement to make." Since he is hardly ever photographed, he has no trouble traveling incognito, often signing on one of his ships as a crewman though of course he doesn't work at it. Ellerman's passion is rodents, on which he wrote a three-volume anatomical study, the definitive work...
Slow Bow. Karr is building a movement. Next year he will be teaching at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, Boston's New England Conservatory and the University of Wisconsin. He publishes a magazine (The Bass Sound Post) and organizes annual conferences for the 1,000-member International Institute for the String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering...
...little fancy; it is frankly and almost completely autobiographical. Like his plays, Exile is a characteristically raw and intensely passionate statement. Weiss's first-person hero is a German-born half Jew who at 18 leaves his country to get away from the Nazis. He subsequently sojourns in England, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden (where Weiss now lives). But the title refers not so much to the transient state of a political refugee as it does to the traditional alienated state of an artistic spirit...