Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steadiness may be a characteristic but not consistency: Watson's war wound, sustained in Afghanistan, wanders from shoulder to leg, depending on the plot. Holmes has a "catlike love of personal cleanliness," yet he keeps his "tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper," and unanswered letters "transfixed by...
In fact, the enduring affection of the public for Holmes and Watson appears to be quite a conundrum. But, as the master says in The Red-Headed League, "as a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be." Let us examine the evidence. We...
Great Scott ! Sherlock Holmes is 100 ! But the immortal sleuth and Dr. Watson are still very much in popular demand.
P.G. Wodehouse remarks, "The tragedy of life is that your early heroes lose their glamor . . . with Doyle I don't have this feeling." All Sherlockians would agree. After all, they are looking at their own dreams. That is why the detective and the doctor can never go out of style...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Anne Constable, Patricia Delaney, Michael Duffy, Hays Gorey, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Neil MacNeil, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joseph N. Boyce...