Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Hamlet Revisited...
Halfway around the world in Mexico, another of humanity's sorrows was turning to promise. Huddled into a corner of Nayarit state, the squalid hamlet of Tecuala had for years had contact with the outside world only through a dirt mule track. But in 1951 an all-weather road pushed into Tecuala, and the town got a small, 600-kw. generator. Within weeks, the power plant put new life into Tecuala. A modern street-lighting system was installed, a water-pumping system modernized; Tecuala's hospital got refrigerators, fluorescent lighting, a fluoroscope. In short order, the town added...
...cluster of such talented younger men as Mark Van Doren, Mortimer Adler and Irwin Edman. To help pay his bills, Barzun and some friends ran a "perfectly legal and honest tutoring mill" called Ghosts Inc. "No subjects were barred. If a retired minister came who wanted to read Hamlet in Esperanto (one did), we supplied an instructor who spoke the language like a native." In 1927, at the time of his graduation, Barzun stood at the top of his class...
Stanley Kubrick, who looks (according to one Hollywood observer) like "an undernourished Marlon Brando," is the son of a Bronx physician. At 13 he began "fooling around" with his father's Graflex. At 16 he took some pictures of his English teacher reading Hamlet and sold them to Look Magazine. At 17 he quit college for a full-time job as a Look staff photographer, and at 21 he made his first film: a 15-minute study of a boxer on the day of a fight. It cost $3,900, sold...
...story-The Parting-is characteristic of the rest. It tells of Michael Joyce leaving his remote Aran hamlet for the mainland, where at 13 he will be committed to the life of a priest. On the same boat, the family slings , a bullock they have sold away to Galway. The loading is botched and so, in emotional terms, is the boy's farewell; the family is torn by an anguish it can only express in hysteria and anger. The boy himself believes that he is being sent to the priesthood to eke out the family income, and his fate...