Word: lopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loping Along. The western has changed considerably in Raine's span. Raine has changed too but not radically. He has been content to lope along an endless Chisholm trail of escape that carries millions of readers to happy endings. He has always been modest about his success, has never thought of himself as a "literary" man. He rode with the Arizona Rangers, drank in campfire tales, covered many of the cattle and mining wars. He looks back with comfortable nostalgia on the people of the Old West. "Any of them would have ridden 30 miles to fetch...
Author Suárez' pessimistic fatalism is not calculated to win him wide readership in the U.S., although in Spain he has reaped a harvest of literary honors. He has won the Adonais Prize with a volume of poems, the Lope de Vega Prize with a play, and the Nadal Prize with The Final Hours, his first novel. U.S. readers will not have to share Prizewinner Suarez' gloomy attitude to respect his accomplishments as a novelist...
...write. Sometimes he plays hooky in the Yale library ("I flip through an archaeological journal and read a piece about a new excavation in Herculaneum. I even read medical journals"). He "does" Finnegan's Wake, pores over Kierkegaard, works at his hobby of dating the plays of Lope de Vega, strums on the piano, or reads a score of a Palestrina Mass. After lunch he usually takes a long nap. After 5, visitors come ("I like bustle after 5"). Then, pacing about his living room, consumed with his latest enthusiasm, Wilder will talk on & on into the night. Sometimes...
Tony makes his stage entrance in a breathless vaudeville lope. When the applause and giggles have died down, he begins his act, swaying his loose-limbed body, singing in a style derived from several of his colleagues. When he belts and writhes a tune, he sounds like Frankie Laine; he uses Frank Sinatra's phrasing and slurring methods; he occasionally adds a few scale slides reminiscent of Billy Eckstine; at times he seems to be contemplating Bing Crosby's nonchalance, as through a dark glass enviously...
...describe him, they usually fall back on such words as restless, troubled, intense, obsessed. But Greene is not the kind of man who makes a vivid first impression. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), frail and lanky, he dresses like a careless Oxford undergraduate, walks with a combination roll and lope that emphasizes a slight hump between his shoulders. Physically, he is an easy man to forget (one old acquaintance remembers him simply as "badly made"), except for the face with its wrinkled skin that looks as if it had shaken loose from the flesh, and the startled, startlingly washed...