Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arendt calls him "a figure from fairyland," and none who knew him can resist commenting on the sparkling, playful eyes lodged in his deep and at times overpoweringly sad face. Elizabeth Bishop remembers him looking "small and rather delicate but bright and dazzling, too" on the crest of a Cape Cod sand dune, writing in a notebook. Robert Fitzgerald finds his face "old-fashioned and rural and honorable and a little toothy." His wife says that he grew the immense beard to look like Chekhov, but to another observer it hides "the naked vulnerability of his countenance...
...favorite writer was Proust and in his final book, The Lost World, he dipped back into his Hollywood childhood in two long poems. Though he tries to escape into the past, the book has residues of bitterness against the present from a collection of violent essays entitled A Sad Heart in the Supermarket he wrote in the early '60s. In The Lost World he writes a wonderfully weary poem of the suburban house that could have the same title as his earlier anthology...
Jarrell's sudden death hasn't been as anonymous, and the Committee of memorialists has contrived to write something far more elaborate than the "anything will do" he asked for as an epitaph. Buried in this courteous and often adoring book are kernels of the familiar sad story of the American artist that poured out in Jarrell's poems. He was recovering or perhaps failing to recover from a nervous breakdown that October in North Carolina. "When I last saw him, not long before his death," Arendt writes, "the laughter was almost gone and he was ready to admit defeat...
...small Texas town to another-"those Panhandle towns where the main street goes on and on and on, and there's nothing much behind it, like a movie set." Hailey acknowledges that the play "was anchored in my childhood, but it was too grim. I always saw it sad. Always turning that knife. Nobody wants to go to a theater to cry about my family. I had to get far enough away from it to see it as funny before I could write...
...life of Jesus as seen through the eyes of Judas, John the Baptist and Doubting Thomas, based on the novel Salt of the Earth by Carlo Monterosso. His next movie is Petulia, starring Julie Christie, which he shot in San Francisco. In Lester's view it is a "sad, desperate, antiromantic picture" (and he would like to retitle it Romance...