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...life, Auden became happy. As he explains in "Lullaby," he was "released at last/From lust for other bodies,/Rational and reconciled." Some poets can write under these circumstances; Auden apparently could not. Auden wrote Thank You, Fog after the long exiles of his life--in Weimar Germany, Iceland, and New York--had ended and he was invited back to Oxford. As a long-time expatriate and as a homosexual, Auden could never have been Poet Laureate. Yet, by the end of his life, he would have been as innocuous a choice as Sir John Betjeman...
...squally night two years ago, just when it seemed that Bobby Fischer was finally going to board a jet for Reykjavik, Iceland, when it looked as if his match with Boris Spassky for the world chess championship might actually take place, all hell broke loose at Kennedy International Airport. This time the perpetrator was not a freaked-out Fischer but a small boy who discovered the skittish grand master hiding in an airport bar and led a charge of newsmen to the scene. Bobby bolted out the door, across a highway and vanished into the gloom. His handlers meanwhile, fending...
...many new and intriguing facts about the "Chess Match of the Century." At one point in the hectic go, no-go negotiations, Darrach reports that despite diplomatic requests from such noted peacemakers as Henry Kissinger ("In short," Kissinger said later, "I told Fischer to get his butt over to Iceland"), Bobby, the exercise buff, refused to budge because he could not get Jack La-Lanne on Icelandic TV. One of Darrach's more startling disclosures is that Fischer, assured of a $125,000 purse and still demanding more, inexplicably and in all seriousness asked Darrach to help him draft...
...other nations, starting with Chile in 1947, drew no such distinctions and declared that they owned the waters extending for various distances from their coasts. Today, while many countries still abide by the archaic three-mile limit, most do not. Russia, for instance, claims twelve miles; Iceland, 50 miles; South Africa, 100 miles; and others, mainly in Latin America, 200 miles...
...impeccable courtesy. In contrast to Fischer, Spassky's literacy is wide and his political awareness is at once subtle and adult." Yet as the admirer acknowledges, that cultivation may have undone Spassky. Despite the Russian's domination of the game for a decade, the Boris of Iceland displayed a literal and philosophical resignation in the face of Fischer's predatory inventions. The result was less drama than ritual: civilization vanquished by barbarism. Or was it decadence defeated by energy? Or was it an unconscious harbinger of detente...