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...graduation from High School, he and I stayed up all night. When 6 a.m. rolled around, we left for Mass at a poor Portuguese Church in the North End. Gathered there to hear Mass in Portuguese were strong women who appeared at peace; middle aged men with rough hewn hands and faces; tough and happy children. Many of those there that early probably came so they could get to their Sunday job on time...
...smack of modernity. The interplay between memory and imagination has removed the landscapes to a plane somewhere between the actual and the ideal. The pictures do not record fact--what the Lake Country really looks like--but rather the sense of mystery and wonder it produces. Mr. Feild has hewn every element in the vista to its most essential aspect. In this manner, the side of a cliff is painted as color emboldened by light; his nature is composed of remarkable harmonies. A spiritual sympathy for the Oriental arrangement of space lends the pictures a vast, almost mythic composure...
Wright Morris has been married twice but has no children. At 61, he is as spare as his prose. A gentle-looking, though apparently rough-hewn character, he wears a subdued lion's mane of silver-white hair. For years he has made some of his living at part-time jobs, especially teaching. He is currently at Princeton for a year. During the past decade he has been a creative-writing instructor at troubled San Francisco State, an excellent place to get acquainted with the kind of radical young whom he treats in Fire Sermon with ambiguous reserve...
Died. Van Heflin, 60, performer in more than 50 films and on the Broadway stage; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The rough-hewn actor with the jutting jaw and the gravelly voice scored his first big Broadway success in The Philadelphia Story (1939). From his 1942 Oscar-winning performance as the drunken newspaper reporter in Johnny Eager to his portrayal of the longshoreman in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge (1955), to his role as the mad bomber in last year's Airport, Heflin managed to avoid the typecasting that plagues many actors...
...years later, he is an Academy Award winner and one of the few directors whose name appears above the title of a movie on the credits. "All the honors and glory a film director could hope for were mine at the age of forty," Capra writes in his rough-hewn prose. "I even made the cover of TIME...