Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, all is well. Like the book, the movie begins as an anonymous stranger (Maximilian Schell) arrives at a village. He announces that he is the new land surveyor for the "Castle" perched on a nearby hill. Inexplicably, the suspicious villagers already know and fear him. The remainder of the story simply concerns his futile negotiations to gain an identity from the impenetrable villagers and a calling from the inaccessible castle...
...toga and a wreath on Gore Vidal and he could pass as a Roman at Nero's court. You know, the cheerfully disillusioned fellow in the corner who always said the empire would come to a bad end and-now that the fire has started-is absolutely the life of the party...
...Some British critics feel that the difficulty lies in unfamiliarity with the moods and mores of the British upper classes. Others suggest that some acquaintance with the flesh-and-blood originals of Powell's fictional characters is necessary to savor his prose. But would it really help to know that Moreland, the intelligent musician who provides such a sparkling commentary on this world, was perhaps drawn from Composer Constant Lambert, or that the vastly comic Widmerpool was lovingly conjured from the fatuous figure of a minor Tory Cabinet Minister? It seems most unlikely...
Located in Brookline, TCC is the closest Boston comes to the British style of golf--tight fairways, long rough, and small greens. The only problem is that play is strictly limited to members and their guests, so know somebody before you head out there...
Most of them honor memberships from out-of-state clubs, though. They will extend guest privileges if some kind of membership identification is shown. Naturally, it always helps to know a member...