Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jacklin's victory, following hard on his triumph at the British Open last summer, marks him at 25 as one of the most promising young pros on the tour. Though he dropped out of school at 15 to play golf, he did not join the U.S. pro circuit until...
To all of which, Robert Trent Jones gives a ringing bravo. "If it's short, flat, dull courses that the pro golfers prefer, they can order them out of the Sears, Roebuck catalog," he says. Indeed, his whole object is to create a course of "hard pars and easy...
Low Rubbish. Snowdon, now 40, ventured into film making to prove that he is something more than just a royal consort and a still photographer. "A still photographer," he says, "is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read." Snowdon, of course, remains one of the...
That sort of compartmentalization both "panics" and saves Tony, according to his friends. He actually pays rent to Margaret for the space in Kensington Palace where he does his office work, film processing and carpentry. He maintains an eight-room cottage at Nymans, the Armstrong-Jones family estate 35 miles...
He is no less specific about the poets who influenced him most: Brecht, Bridges, Cavafy, Frost, Graves, Hardy, David Jones, Lawrence, De la Mare, Marianne Moore, Wilfred Owen, Laura Riding, Edward Thomas, William Carlos Williams. The vastness of the list tends to obscure its two surprising omissions.