Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days It was enough to titillate the great storyteller's ghost. The wackiest ocean race of all time, it started in a cozy English club, the consequence of a five-bob (70?) wager between a balding ex-commando and a bespectacled manufacturer of pocket maps. The wager made, War Hero H. G. ("Blondie") Hasler and Mapmaker Francis Chichester approached the prestigious Royal Western Yacht Club for official sanction. Their casual proposition: to sail the perilous Atlantic, from Plymouth to New York, into the teeth of the prevailing westerlies -one lone...
...Odets where is thy sting?" and proves the superiority of one who knows that he is a clown to one who does not. College instructors should perhaps prescribe the book as esthetic therapy. Not that even today's sophomores are likely to lose their critical faculties over a ghost of the '30s like Clifford Odets; nor. as E. B. White proves in a one-page version of Somerset Maugham, is the jejune quality of the Old Party's dinner-jacketed one-upmanship likely to delude the young. The wonder is, Twentieth Century Parody suggests, that there...
...Youthful Ghost. The old Welsh fire brand, Lloyd George, had once advised that the best way for a newcomer to attract attention in the House was to attack the greatest men around. Nye started with Lloyd George himself. During Nye's blistering speech, said another M.P. later, "Lloyd George sat there fascinated. It was as though he had seen a ghost-the ghost of his own youth...
...misfits who stumbled in unrelieved bewilderment through The Field of Vision, including a sagging, dyspeptic housewife who stands weepingly on varicose-veined legs over the kitchen sink lamenting the candy-box sweetheart she never was, and her father, a mad old man of 90 who sits alone in a ghost town reliving the Death Valley days and Indian burials he never saw. Morris employs a vocabulary of extravagant and irritating symbolism; the characters ruminate at length about the "prison of their past," but Novelist Morris never makes clear who held the keys or who locked the door...
...Dark Vision. Whatever roles Shakespeare played onstage (some think his favorite part was the ghost in Hamlet), offstage he was a prudent investor and a bit of a snob. He bought a piece of the players' company, a piece of the Globe, and eventually paid ?60 for New Place, the second grandest house in Stratford. In 1596 his father pushed his long-dormant claim to a coat of arms, and the Shakespeares