Word: shelley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shelley Winters' stay at Kirkland House earlier this week was a perfect example of what a Ford Foundation visit ought to be. It could well be used as a model for all future visits to this community by people from the non-academic world...
...somewhat nervous, extremely humble Shelley Winters faced a Kirkland House audience last night in a talk that marked "the first time I've ever attempted to lecture anyone about anything--calmly...
Happily, the show settles down to the real business of a wedding, which is squabbling and confusion. The negotiators, who would do credit to a disarmament conference, are Alfie Nathan (Shelley Berman), the bride's uncle and guardian, and Tilly Siegal (Eileen Heckart), the bridegroom's mother. Alfie innocently proposes a family affair in his living room, with only 40 guests present. Tilly wants the Old Oaks Country Club ("Problem weddings our specialty") and 400 guests. Alfie's defeat is honorable, and most of the time it is funny...
Died. Robinson Jeffers, 75, solitary poet of gloom, whose half-century of tragic, ironic verse won the 1960 Shelley Memorial Award; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. Best known for his vividly free adaptation of Euripides' Medea, he judged civilization as "a transient sickness," wrote from the tower of a massive granite house that he built near the rugged Big Sur region of the California coast...
...served up a bronze bust of himself done by Economist and Sunday Sculptor Leo Cherne (mused Frost: "It doesn't have to look like me; if it's a good bust, it's all right"). Then came the airy dessert: a morsel whipped up by Shelley Award Winner Theodore Roethke. A poetaste...