Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOMECOMING springs traps and surprises on its audience, making the play's validity, intent and meaning the controversy of the season. The Royal Shakespeare Company gives Harold Pinter's drama a spellbinding presentation...
...HAROLD NICOLSON: THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945, VOL. II OF DIARIES AND LETTERS, edited by Nigel Nicolson. This second installment of Author-Politician Nicolson's sprightly and irreverent reminiscences might well clinch his position as the brightest British diarist...
...from the season before. Among the high spots were: one major S.R.O. smash, the musical Cabaret; two comedy clicks, Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running and Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy; one important drama, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which turned a profit only because of a movie sale; and the settling in, for the first time in 28 years, of a first-rate rep company...
...should write one's diary for one's great-grandson," writes Sir Harold Nicolson in the diary he kept faithfully for 34 years of his active life as a prolific author and sometime Member of Parliament. "The purely private diary becomes too self-centred and morbid. One should have a remote, but not too remote, audience...
...perfect focus. The editor's footnotes correct the record where Sir Har old's information was faulty, or where a dinner anecdote is constructed out of whole tablecloth. But the diarist's perceptions of people, from Churchill to De Gaulle to a rising Tory named Harold Macmillan, are always close-up and marvelously crisp and sharp. And the mood of an embattled nation is mirrored in all its nuances through the changing fortunes...