Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House on the death of a President, noted Sorensen, have ever sought re-election to a second consecutive full term.* Would Johnson follow that custom? Grinning slyly, the President replied: "I didn't know there had been that much speculation about it. I think that, down the road several months from now, there will be an appropriate time for an announcement of what my future plans...
...works are reprinted in anything but paperback, he is usually dead, or his books have come to be considered classics-or both. John Earth, 36, is alive, and none of his books have yet reached the classical shelf. He has written four novels-The Floating Opera, End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy. The first three together sold fewer than 8,000 copies. Goat-Boy, the only one that can be called a popular success, sold about 50,000 and showed up briefly on the bestseller lists. Despite this inconclusive reception, The Sot-Weed Factor...
...salty salvo in the war between the sexes, Shrew has already been through several screen treatments, including one with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., a long-running road-company revival with the Lunts, and a Broadway musical adaptation (Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate). Zeffirelli has refurbished the oft-told tale by styling it with the brio of the 16th century commedia dell'arte. Moreover, his casting seems to be a case of art's imitating life: Elizabeth Taylor as the sharp-tongued tigress, Kate, and Richard Burton as her hard-nosed trainer, Petruchio...
Quandary. Earth's four books trace the systematic progress of the anti-novelist. The author began conventionally enough with The Floating Opera and End of the Road, both written when he was 24. In the first, Lawyer Todd Andrews, deeply disturbed by his father's suicide, decides that nothing in life has much meaning; he makes up his mind to follow his father's example. But the decision sets its own quandary: "If nothing makes any final difference, that fact makes no final difference either, and there is no more reason to commit suicide, say, than...
...search for life's meaning also runs through End of the Road. "In a sense, I am Jacob Horner," the book's narrator begins, with typical uncertainty. Then he conducts a tour along the "weatherless" days of his life. Hornet suffers low-pressure areas during which he ceases to function. Hypnotized by the multitude of life's choices, he can make no choice at all. The novel is partly autobiographical. It is laid in Maryland, where Earth grew up; Horner teaches English at Wicomico State Teachers College, while Earth teaches English at the Buffalo campus...