Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threshold of his 80th year, writes as passionately as ever. Talent, discipline and enjoyment keep the juices flowing; recognition helps. Knighted hi 1975, Sir Victor is generally regarded as the best literary journalist working both sides of the Atlantic. His two-volume autobiography, A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil, are quiet marvels of English prose and self-appraisal, and his stories have accrued into a body of major work...
...author has written, "the supreme pleasure of putting oneself in by leaving oneself out." The technique requires the placement of the precise detail at the exact emotional distance, and it gave his autobiography the immediacy of his fiction. Here, for example, is that extraordinary passage from Midnight Oil in which Pritchett describes one of the more dramatic consequences of his father's exasperating personality: "He had no notion of what to do; some bewilderment at the fact that other people existed, independently of himself, made him cling to the idea that events had not happened ... He invented excuse after...
...nightmares with wrenching accuracy: the kid who phones his real father infront of Mother's new man because he instinctively knows it will hurt them and at the same time he knows they can't stop him Or the lone spouse who chain-smokes in "the blue light of midnight" while his unconscious wife snores contentedly beside him, unaware of his terrifying spiral into chaos...
Because the ferry to Edgartown had been shut down at midnight, the Senator swam across the 500-ft.-wide channel and walked to his inn. He changed into dry clothes and spoke briefly to the innkeeper. Gargan and Markham, meanwhile, returned to the cottage for the night. Following Kennedy's instructions, they told no one about the accident...
...University of New Hampshire has banned beer kegs in the dorms (a move that triggered a midnight march of students chanting "We want kegs!"). The University of Kansas now requires that soft beverages be available whenever alcohol is served at on-campus social functions. Promotion of alternative beverages has even won a few converts at the Uni versity of Virginia, where demand for booze by undergraduates has long been legendary. The sales volume of the local liquor store in Charlottesville is third highest in the state. One Charlottesville wholesaler even offers a ''Dial-a-keg" service, complete with...