Word: mason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years on-camera, Peck, 61, is playing a villain. His role: Dr. Josef Mengele, Hitler's SS physician in the movie version of Ira Levin's bestseller The Boys from Brazil. Living in exile in Paraguay, Mengele, with the help of a Nazi collaborator (James Mason), is involved in a bizarre scheme to clone 94 duplicates of Hitler. The evil machinations don't faze perennial Good Guy Peck. "Being obsessed and sadistic is not so hard to do," he reflects. "I am thoroughly enjoying myself...
This year two books need no color to make them models of superlative craftsmanship and originality. In My Village, Sturbridge (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), Gary Bowen invents a character, True Mason, and walks him through a 19th century New England village. Bowen's style is lean and precise. But it is his and Randy Miller's brilliantly detailed wood engravings that grant My Village the aura of a rare antique rescued from some forgotten attic. David Macaulay has won an international reputation without being able to draw believable people. What he can draw-churches, cities, pyramids-he does...
...with genuine flair. Moreover, his marvelous ear for dialogue has developed an unprecedented sharpness: unlike the characters in his previous books, the Americans in The Honourable Schoolboy not only speak differently from the British, but each character boasts a subtle regional accent, as well. No one sounds like Perry Mason, either--which alone sets the book apart from a shelf-full of other British espionage tales. In fact, all of le Carre's characters are so strong, so engaging in their own sleazy, desperate way, that the book should boost the author beyond the inevitable comparisons with Graham Greene, into...
...DIED. Mason Welch Gross, 66, former president of Rutgers University (1959-71); after a long illness; in Red Bank, N.J. A critic of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, Gross maintained a quiet campus during the '60s era of protests...
Also at Harvard, Peabody-Mason Music Foundation presents pianist Gary Steigerwalt on Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The first American pianist to win the Liszt-Bartok International Piano Competition is Budapest, Steigerwalt will play Haydn's Sonata in F Major, Bartok's Suite Op. 14, Preludes by Debussy and some Liszt and Schumann works, including Schumann's "Symphonic Etudes." Call 266-3314 for more info...