Word: idyl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip short and come home. So Jackie stayed on vacation. Clad in a modish dark blue bathing suit and a bright blue cap, she swam and water-skied in the Aegean Sea, while units of the Royal Hellenic Navy kept unwelcome small craft at bay. As her vacation idyl ended, Jackie tooled through the countryside in a Mercedes with young Crown Prince Constantine at the wheel. On her return to Washington, she found her husband waiting for her, sitting in the back seat of his Cadillac. The tanned and radiant First Lady raced through the official welcome-home ceremonies...
DRAMA. The Pulitzer-Prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, which might also be titled Young Dr. Freud; and A Taste of Honey, a gentle treatment of some bitter episodes, are the only survivors. All are worthwhile, plus, of course, last season's Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast, for anyone who has not yet seen...
Writer's Lot. There is no chronology to Hear Us, and some of these episodes are merely hinted at. One piece, The Forest Path to the Spring, is masterly-a vibrant nature idyl that is in a direct spiritual descent from Thoreau's Walden. But the bulk of the book displays an occupational disease of 20th century writers : writing about writing and the writer's lot. In Elephant and Colosseum, Lowry tries the bulky device of symbolizing his work as an elephant, presumably patient, massive, mnemonic, with a final trumpeting of glory. In Strange Comfort Afforded...
...himself did in the '30s and early '40s. The farm is really Daniele's first loyalty, and his teen-aged daughter Silvia is his chief joy. Amid the cycle of the seasons, Silone fashions a triptych of father, daughter and nature, linked in a timeless rural idyl...
...somebody else-who have known and mildly disliked each other for years. Then, accidentally, they find themselves in Acapulco for a two-week vacation, alone together and falling in love. They fight it off, swim it off, laugh it off, in the end settle for a nice, safe, neuter idyl that is both hilarious and painful to watch...