Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noting that Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson had agreed to do the commentary for the Toscanini-NBC Symphony recording of Debussy's La Mer, which will be released this fall, the New York Times's Book Columnist David Dempsey concluded: "This opens up practically unlimited possibilities for authors who would like to do a little music commentating oji the side. Hemingway could take Carmen; Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Flying Dutchman; Lin Yutang, Chopsticks...
...against a background of history, but instead tells the story through the actual people who lived it and helped to make it happen." In other words, while Tolstoy was able to give his imagination a pretty free rein in War & Peace, Stone, applying the biographical method to Andrew and Rachel Jackson, makes it his business to use his imagination as little as possible...
...palm of his hand. He loved a wild financial gamble, but he could change overnight into a sober storekeeper and patient farmer. A capable lawyer and a judge, he pored for hours over classic volumes on military strategy, kept a string of race horses, fought pistol duels for Rachel's honor and full-scale battles (New Orleans) for his country's. Small wonder that when, to top it all, he was inaugurated President, a mob of his admirers gate-crashed the White House (and soiled the rugs and chairs with their muddy boots), trying to embrace...
Author Stone follows this career with painstaking accuracy from log cabin to White House, lipsticking its essentially masculine features by portraying it through the eyes of Rachel, and stressing the sea of troubles they faced together as man & wife. The result is a hybrid with neither the grace of fiction nor the substance of biography, but it ought to make a ripsnorting movie. Darryl Zanuck, foresighted in such matters, has already bought the film rights and is thinking about Gregory Peck as Andrew Jackson, Olivia de Havilland as the President's little woman...
...Around Us, by Rachel Carson. The life & times of the sea; a first-class popular summary of what scientists have dredged up (TIME, July...