Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such tack is not for the upwardly mobile. For the ladies, the model is Jacqueline Kennedy astride her bay gelding Winchester, while the daughters as avidly keep track of Caroline's every outing with her ponies Macaroni or Leprechaun. Sniffs a Boston dentist, whose whole family rides English, outfitted in boots, breeches and hard hats: "After all, if you ride, you should dress for it. You really can't get the feeling of it in sneakers and jeans...
...boys) whom she trains at Valley Farm Stables in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where she watches them go through their junior horse shows every other week. "The whole horse business has changed," says her husband Lee, a former broncobuster. "Twenty or 30 years ago, showing was for the rich. Now English riding, hunting and showing have become tremendously popular with everyone...
...ranch full of quarter horses, saddles them up Western style, as do Ronald Reagan and, on occasion, Bob Hope. But Mitchum's daughter Trina will have none of this riding-the-range bit; she's gone off and bought her own hunter, which she rides and shows English style. Nor is she alone: until five years ago at Valley Farm Stables riding was predominantly Western and casual; now, suddenly, 70% are using English saddles...
This is Vladimir Nabokov's second novel, written and published in Russian in 1928, when he was a 28-year-old émigré living in Berlin. It was recently roughed into English by Nabokov's son Dmitri, then tightened and buffed to a cold brilliance by the author. "Of all my novels," says Nabokov, "this bright brute is the gayest. Expatriation, destitution, nostalgia had no effect on its elaborate and rapturous composition...
Still another totally recalled English boyhood? One more sensitive child of privilege weaning himself from old Nanny and stumbling gamely onto the fields of Eton? Not at all. V.S. (for Victor Sawdon) Pritchett's brilliantly belligerent account of his first 20 years is about as far as a memoir can get from the usual look-back-in-languor...