Word: hatton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Denys Finch Hatton, aristocrat, aviator and athlete, war hero and white hunter. She is, when we meet her, Isak Dinesen, storyteller. But before that she was Baroness Karen Blixen, who in 1913-14 exchanged family money for a title, a farm in Kenya and the 17 years of experience that, distilled to its essence, would form the basis for one of this century's truly singular literary compositions, Out of Africa...
...Dinesen's eloquent biographer, Judith Thurman, puts it, Finch Hatton "was so precious that he is mentioned sparingly" in the book. He is there as a man who comes and goes at the wayward bidding of his own enigmatic spirit. But at least he is present. Dinesen's husband Bror Blixen, the amiable decadent who brought the writer to her great subject, is never mentioned at all. With his debts and his womanizing and, ultimately, his syphilis, he is too coarse for the rarefied atmosphere she created...
...Hatton has a lighter outlook on the mishaps. "It is a festive atmosphere, but the racing is pretty intense. There's not a lot of laughter while you're rowing, but there's a lot afterwards...
Radcliffe novice Coach Holly Hatton recalls one classic catastrophe from several years ago. "Two crews had come from out of town. One was racing and one was launching from Magazine Beach. As the one that was launching came out, the racing boat skewered it, cutting right through and coming out on the other side...
...crew has a speaker mounted on the bow directed outward at other boats so the cox can do audio-intimidation in a big way," Hatton says...