Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Method. The Difficulty of Being, a notebook of autobiographical jottings and esthetic musings that Cocteau kept in 1946, and now published in this country, reveals some of the reasons behind the success of his performance. First, Cocteau believed as firmly as any Method actor in the truth of his role as an artist. Romantically convinced that the artist is the medium, he approached the novel, drama, painting, ballet and, finally, cinema, as if each art were merely another form or mold for his personal "poetry," and he did not so much study each new form as pour himself into...
...lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives of Christ and Kennedy, Lincoln and-now-Lyndon Baines Johnson, carries the device too far. For eleven days, Bishop tagged the President's heels-even into the flowered fields of the L.BJ. ranch-notebook at the ready for the drop of a detail...
...visas altogether, the Albanian People's Republic continues to maintain a studiously calculated atmosphere of siege. It has revived the medieval habit of closing down for the night; the open hours are from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. The ever-present Albanian guide, reading from a slightly greasy notebook, explains to visitors that the electric border fence is there to keep Albanian animals from straying into Yugoslavia...
...said the English mystic poet and draftsman, William Blake, "but everybody does not see alike." How vividly Blake's vision differed from that of ordinary mortals was illustrated once again last week when an English Blake enthusiast announced that he had unearthed from a castle in Ayrshire a notebook of Blake sketches that had not been seen publicly since...
...seemed to be on top of the problem," says NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft. As often as not, Mr. Mac himself would turn up at Cape Kennedy for a 3 a.m. breakfast with departing astronaut crews. To help him recall who was who, he invariably carried a small black notebook crammed with the names of wives, children?and even their dogs. "Mr. Mac is an anachronism," says NASA's Paul Haney. "There's a measured cadence in working with him that's refreshing?the same aura that was Henry Ford...