Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noise and crowding. Man needs space, privacy, a territory. All that open space is no one's land, and so it goes to hell and is wasted. Meantime, back at the cluster, no one has anything worth a dime-no place for pets or horses or a garden, no fence, nothing but a fancy, outdoor Pruitt-Igoe...
Margaret Mitchell toyed with the idea of calling it Tote the Weary Load. Her heroine at one time was named Pansy O'Hara. Vivien Leigh got the part in the movie only after David O. Selznick had already burned down the massive sets from King Kong and The Garden of Allah to effect the destruction of Atlanta. Selznick's brother Myron, slightly drunk, pulled up to the glowing ruins and triumphantly presented the young English actress: "I want you to meet your Scarlett O'Hara." Leigh remembered that when she got into Scarlett's costume...
Moncreiff lives with his wife and three children a few blocks above Radcliffe, off Garden St. When asked if he had any hobbies, he turned seriously to his wife and asked, "Do I have any hobbies, Liz?" They finally agreed that he enjoys opera and collecting books...
BREAKFAST SPECIAL--Sun. Oct. 28 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., First Congregational Church, Garden St., Adults, $2.50; Children free...
...them. Amsterdam is filled with other people who seem to bounce off him at random, including a henpecked French intellectual and an American writer at work on a screenplay about Trotsky. Over the novel hovers a controlling symbol, the reiterated memory of the ten minutes in the sunlit, walled garden in Mexico in 1939 when Trotsky was murdered with an Alpine pick. Ramon Mercader is death-obsessed which gives it its greatest strength. ∙ Horace Judson