Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sort of Scottish Dylan ("You fill your glasses with the wine of murdered Negroes"), has forsaken protest for the pipes of a psychedelic Pied Piper, leading his myriad followers to a never-ever land of "velvet thrones" and "cascading crystals" via "trans-love airways." "I will bring you gold app-uls and grapes made of rubies" he chants, weaving a seamless tapestry of fairy tales with titles like Legend of a Girl Child Linda and The Fat Angel...
...those ideas practically all his life. As a boy in Beverly Hills, "he just grew up with a book in his hand," says his mother, Mrs. Marie F. Burns, 76. His father died when John was a year old, and his mother subsequently remarried three times-once to a gold prospector who had been in the Klondike. Gardner recalls listen ing raptly to stories of the Gold Rush. "In each," he says, "the central theme was constant-riches left untapped...
Prospect St. at night is magic. Fifteen Victorian mansions line the street, glowing gold from their windows. Princeton men in v-neck sweaters and blue button-down shirts walk down the sidewalk in groups of three or four. A few groups peel off at each building: Colonial, with its high pillars; Cap and Gown, with its Tudor facade; Ivy; Tower Cottage. It feels like someone should be humming "Going Back to Nassau Hall" in the background...
...viking relies in, of all places, the gardens of Sweden's sumer castle. He found none, but that did not blunt his enthusiasm for further exporation. He studied archaeology at Uppsala University, and while a student, unearthed one of his nation's most precious artifacts-a gold-plated sword dating from Sweden's Iron Age. As the young Crown Prince, Gustaf in 1926 visited the Orient, where he met Swedish archaeologists busy uncovering China's prehistoric ages. Fascinated by the similarity between Viking and ancient Chinese bronze objects, Gustaf began collecting, helped stock Stockholm...
Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Lionel Trilling, Saul Bellow and Ivan Gold in totally different ways represent the singular sensibility that Jews have brought to American life. Mailer has a derisive piece about the manners of a group of middle-class Jewish New Yorkers deciding what is the correct attitude to take toward a stag film. A famous piece by Lionel Trilling (Of This Time, Of That Place) pits genius against the academic establishment in a story about a moral crisis in the life of a college professor. That the military is an insensitive institution is made plain...