Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mackenzie (Hal Frederick) is an aspiring barrister from Jamaica whose search for a London apartment is complicated by predictable amounts of prejudice and duplicity. "Yes, Madam," he recites patiently over the phone, "it is a Scottish name. But I am from the West Indies. Yes, I am hopelessly black." On a tip, he finds lodgings in the Chelsea flat of Roddy (Robin Phillips), the son of "decayed gentle folk." Roddy's own insecurities lead him to identify more and more with Mackenzie's black friends and to lure him into a dead-end love affair with a white...
...guitarist was blessed with the good Scottish name of MacLeod. This drew admiration from everyone, as did MacLeod's two and a half year old daughter who was the common care and joy of the household...
...sees to it that everyone has enough to eat. He loves music and his house revolves around song; the people whistle snatches of tunes as they moved about. But words, too, are handled lovingly: when I was there Donovan took much delight in hearing others use a Scottish accent...
...EVENING, while the girls cooked dinner, Donovan and the boys went down to the pub. A Scottish fellow had hitched in that day with his guitar, and he and Donovan sang a few old ballads together: then Donovan gave his autograph to a girl who was at the pub with her mother. After a few pints, we returned to the house for a delicious macrobiotic dinner...
Died. Gavin Maxwell, 55, Scottish writer and naturalist, of cancer; in Edinburgh, Scotland. Solitary by disposition, more intrigued by animals than by people, Maxwell mined the world's far reaches for his many books. In Harpoon Venture (1952), he recounted his experiences hunting sharks off the craggy coasts of the Hebrides; travels among Iraqi Arabs led to People of the Reeds (1957). But it was his tender relationship with two otters in the remote Scottish highlands, retold in Ring of Bright Water (1960), that brought him his greatest acclaim. "Stage one on the way to understanding human beings...