Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last July 4 Baker hit splendor dead-on with a misty, elegiac column called "Summer Beyond Wish." The piece was set in the rural Virginia of his boyhood. It was full of love, the rich, buzzing emptiness of a country summer and the sense that poverty was near...
...Baker would look down and say, 'Look, there's Ken Keating, wearing Charles Bickford's old hair.'" Charles McDowell of the Richmond Times-Dispatch recalls Baker's work: "He'd start out writing about some Senator, and pretty soon it would turn into a piece of architecture. He'd set scenes and roll around in his story like an essayist...
They must be able to work fast and pull all-nighters in hotel rooms. A good one knows how to eliminate a character, take out a scene, adjust a set. Says Stein: "You need a sixth sense, a feeling for where the show dips." The doctor's bill partly depends upon his success in salvaging the show. There is usually a flat fee, ranging from about $10,000 to $30,000 for five or six weeks' work, and often a percentage of the show's revenues...
...Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff NONFICTION: Billy Graham, Marshall Frady -Confessions of a Conservative, Garry Wills -The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson -The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas -The Powers That Be, David Halberstam The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris -To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica
There have been counterstrains. The transition now to a far more prudent and intelligent energy policy demands reactivation of what M. Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition, calls "a sense of The Green." The earliest towns and villages in the U.S., Holman notes, "usually set aside some land at the center that was held in common, called The Green. But to day, people have difficulty feeling that they have things in common: that there are group interests that override individual needs...