Word: nantucket
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...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. In a play of nocturnal mood and meaning, Williams assembles a defrocked minister, a Nantucket spinster, a sensual spitfire and a nonagenarian poet on a Mexican hotel veranda, where their defeated dreams converge in an elegiac pattern of destiny...
...hotel, a spitfire sensualist who regards her unbuttoned-to-the-waist body as her soul. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal) is an alcoholic, defrocked minister who herds lady-tourists off the guidebook route, but is himself spooked by bottomless guilt. Hannah Jelkes (Margaret Leighton) is a Nantucket spinster of nearly 40 who does portrait sketches to eke out a precariously transient existence, but all of her emotional assets are banked with her 97-year-old grandfather, Nonno. Billed as "the world's oldest living and practicing poet," Nonno (Alan Webb) gives poetry readings and wears the stiff...
...Most informal gathering place for the Kennedy family is the 4.7-acre Hyannisport compound on Cape Cod, where President John Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and their father each have a weathered, roomy summer "cottage." Nerve center of the compound is Father Joe Kennedy's "Big House" overlooking Nantucket Sound, a rambling, shingled, 18-room structure with a three-gabled roof and wide porches that is as New England as a swallowed r. The Big House is both elegant and salty. In an illuminated, glass-paneled display case is Rose Kennedy's collection of more than 200 costumed...
...restless campaign manager, there was almost no time at all for relaxation. An anxious friend admonished him: "You haven't rested a single minute. Is this the way it will be? Will there be this much work all the time?" Bobby, nose peeling from the sun, looked at Nantucket Sound for a wistful moment before giving his answer: "Yes." Then he turned to his worried wife Ethel: "We can rest after November...
...Hyannisport neighbors, mostly Pittsburgh millionaires, sniffed at the Kennedys as "moneyed Boston Irish," and the clan drew closer together. In the community sailing races on Nantucket Sound the Kennedy boys were savage contestants, and an annual softball game between the "Barefoot Boys" (the Kennedys and allies) and the "Pansies" (the neighbors) was fought out each Labor Day on the Kennedy lawn. Jack usually pitched, Bobby and Teddy sometimes pouted when their homemade rules were not observed, and celebrated house guests were occasionally dragooned into the game. Once the late Senator Joe McCarthy made four errors playing shortstop for the Barefoot...