Word: literateur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Oliver St. John Gogarty, 79, irreverent, witty Irish literateur, the "stately, plump Buck Mulligan" of James Joyce's Ulysses, proclaimed (by Irish critics and himself) the world's greatest conversationalist, playwright (The Enchanted Trousers), poet (Wild Apples, Selected Poems), author (as I Was Going Down Sackville Street, Going Native), surgeon (eye, ear, nose, throat), sometime athlete (bicycle sprints), who was dubbed by William Butler Yeats "one of the great lyric poets of our age"; in Manhattan. A onetime senator of the Irish Free State (1922-36), he loved to badger Republicans ("Whenever De Valera contradicts himself...
...those of us who don't have girl friends, Mount Auburn Cemetery has always been a place where they bury people. It was a curious institution, this Mount Auburn, where, rumors suggested, every literateur from Euripides to Ernest Hemingway was entombed. Just to make sure, and to satisfy an insistent editor-boss, we strolled through its sacred arbors one misty, ethereal afternoon this week; frankly, we wish we'd never gone...