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...desk and produced 14 novels and three volumes of short stories in his first 28 years of full-time writing. After 65, he became the Grand Old Man of English letters. The Prince of Wales came to tea. Lawrence of Arabia gave Florence a ride in his sidecar. Hardy's steadily growing prestige and popularity would have seduced most pessimists to optimism. Not Hardy. He simply turned increasingly from tragic fiction to tragic poetry: "After love what comes?/ A few sad vacant hours,/ And then, the Curtain...
...Berry. The charming troublemaker begins his career on the New England coast with the purchase of an aging trained bear called State O' Maine and a 1937 Indian motorcycle with sidecar. The seller is a vagabond named Freud, who after World War II lures Win into the Viennese hotel deal. The hapless entrepreneur is blinded by a radical's bomb and winds up at the third Hotel New Hampshire, in Maine, bought by his surviving children. Only the children do not have the heart to tell him that the resort has been turned into a rape crisis center...
...colleagues at Yale, where he taught for 21 years before retiring in June. They remember him as a scholar of grave old-world courtesy who developed a surprising facility as an amateur bartender (he is one of the few people left who knows how to mix a sidecar). He has, however, been acquiring a reputation as a hard-liner on inflation and as a holder of what Nixon wryly described as "rather, shall we say, outspoken" views. Fellner's views are, in fact, not all that unusual. His daring in voicing them out loud assuredly is-and it promises...
LAST WINTER an album appeared on A and M records entitled The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark. The jacket featured a hill-billy type on a motorcycle passing a joint to another in a sidecar. That picture is almost a visual description of the music on the inside, a very gentle blend of C and W and rock. Generally the term Country and Western calls up images of excruciatingly sentimental lyrics with a fiddle and banjo contest going on in the background. But the arrangements on Expedition (songs written mostly by the musicians Gene Clark and Doug Dillard) combine...
LUCY IN LONDON (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Anthony Newley takes Lucille Ball on a "Special economy guided tour" of London by motorcycle sidecar in this musical comedy special...