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...LARGEST combination of bridge and tunnel (17.6 miles) will be built across Chesapeake Bay with $200 million revenue bond issue. Two tunnels, a bridge and 11.9 miles of causeway will link Cape Charles, Va. with Chesapeake Beach near Norfolk, pave way for a new coastal highway along the Virginia seacoast to provide most direct north-south route between New England and Florida...
...current one-woman show she half impersonates, half interprets Edna St. Vincent Millay, an unfettered real-life bohemian. With a minimum of stage props and commentary, Actress Stickney has woven an autobiographical chronicle out of Edna Millay's poems and letters, from her youthful dreaming in a Maine seacoast town through her Greenwich Village bohemian days and her married life with Eugen Boissevain to her solitary death at 58, in a hilltop house in the Berkshires...
...Restlessness of Shanti Andia, by Pio Baroja, translated by Anthony Kerrigan. A tale of high 19th century adventure (duels, mutiny, piracy) along the Basque seacoast told in a dry, direct style full of stoic understatement...
...Restlessness of Shanti Andía, by Pio Baroja, translated by Anthony Kerrigan. Hemingway claims to be a disciple of this late great Spanish novelist who tells a tale of high 19th century adventure (duels, mutiny, piracy) along the Basque seacoast in a dry, direct style full of stoic understatement...
...Spain's greatest 20th century novelists; yet many of the elements of Shanti Andia have an old-fashioned ring. The story is laid along the Basque seacoast of the igth century. There is a duel, a mutiny, piracy, the slave trade, an escape from prison, changed identities, a kidnaoing, even buried treasure. The hi?h adventure is made believable by the style-dry, direct, understated. But the excitement is only incidental to the story's main theme, which is Shanti's lifelong pursuit of truth and his stoic acceptance of whatever roadblocks fate...