Word: idyl
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Airborne is both an immensely pleasurable, digressionary account of an Atlantic crossing and an unashamed celebration of the good life in anything but the best of times. (One of the crew aboard Cyrano even had to leave the idyl to attend the dissolution of his failed business.) About himself and his class of sailing friends, Buckley writes: "We never fancied ourselves as 'everlasting children of the mysterious sea. Rather as a different generation of 'successors,' anticipated by Joseph Conrad as 'the grown-up children of a discontented earth...
...hamlet of Plains, Ga., where the jungle heat of August still hung on, Jimmy Carter was tanned and rested from his long midsummer idyl and eager to go. When the word came that the debates were on?that he would be able to meet Gerald Ford face to face while tens of millions watched on television?Carter was delighted, confident that he would do well in the duels that could decide the campaign...
...Dinner. Only one thing spoils this family-sitcom idyl: Conrad's older brother is dead, drowned in a boating accident that Conrad survived. Survival leaves Conrad feeling so guilty that he attempts suicide and has to be sent to a mental hospital, passing on his guilt, in turn, to father and mother...
...Country, only human beings submitting ruefully to love's power. Seymour, an inspired actress, almost dances words as well as feelings. Ashton is one of ballet's supreme storytell ers. His pas de deux resemble poems. Dowell dances a sonnet with Natalia, a schoolboy's idyl with Vera, a naughty couplet or two with a coquettish maid. The clear dance designs, all curves and spirals, are infused with his classic sensibility. Let us hope for many another Ashton delight...
Derain's The Turning Road, L'Estaque, 1906. Luxe is a clumsily tender Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light. The painting is drenched in idealized wistfulness, even to the title, taken from Baudelaire's L 'Invitation au voyage: "There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, calm and sensuous pleasure." No effort can restore its lost shock value, and this, in a different way, is true of the Derain as well. Today we luxuriate in its weighty design and audacious color...