Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until now, the British had lived happily with only fuzz on the air in the early morning. But when the ubiquitous David Frost, leading a group of investors and television veterans, was granted a morning franchise by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) in December 1980, the BBC would be damned if it was going to be left in the dark, and it planned a rival show...
...first hour, called Daybreak, was predominantly devoted to a rapid-fire rendition of major news stories. The next 2¼ hr., titled Good Morning Britain, presented by Frost and the sloe-eyed former Independent Television News (ITN) newscaster Anna Ford, featured interviews averaging five minutes each and lighter fare. The first week showed Frost, cheeky and condescending as usual, performing such tasks as reading bloopers from the morning papers. Frost and Ford will also be hosts on a semiregular feature called Through the Keyhole, in which a probing TV-am reporter rummages around the home of a celebrity, psychoanalyzing...
...letters of this extraordinary man. The impressive range of correspondents reflects MacLeish's wide-ranging interests and his knack for getting involved with the public of his time. He was particularly close to Amy Lowell, Dean Acheson, and Ernest Hemingway. He wrote often to Henry Luce, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot '10, and occasionally to Felix Frankfurter. J. Robert Oppenheimer and F.D.R. And the letters are full of MacLeish's articulate and often beautifully phrased observations on everything from political campaign strategies to the function of poetry. What emerges is a cohesive portrait of a powerful...
...only for his sake but for the good name of the country: after ten years it was beginning to look like persecution." For the next few years, MacLeish worked through his contacts in the Justice and State Departments and coordinated a successful joint request by Eliot, Hemingway, and Frost to drop the charges against Pound...
More vividly than a biography could, MacLeish's words show that unlike the tangled personal lives of so many artists, his own life was one of his works of art. To his friend Robert Frost he wrote this letter, one of the last Frost would have received...