Word: sojourner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven by singing and dancing in vaudeville theaters; by age 17, she was a junior writer at MGM, and she has been writing ever since. She has plunged into her formidable assignment with a single-mindedness worthy of Scarlett. Just returned from a seven-week sojourn in the South, Edwards works in her Manhattan apartment bedroom, which she has converted into a cluttered archive of Reconstruction exotica. Beginning every morning at 8:30, propped up in bed by five pillows, she sifts through the five cartons of photocopied newspaper clippings that she collected in Dixie...
Though Zevon very much reflects the tone of youthful alienation heard in Los Angeles country rock, he protests at being labeled simply a Los Angeles songwriter. His next album, he says, will include songs about a sojourn in Europe last year. Then too there is his classical composition. "I'm not about to make a concept album of Hamlet playing the guitar," he says. "I just want to work on my symphony in the early mornings." He has been experimenting with atonality and describes his symphony as being in the tradition of Berg and Bartok. Perhaps, when...
...home in India, too, he has a considerable following. There are centers of his disciples all over the subcontinent. He will return there this fall in a chartered Air India 747, together with 400 American devotees and a pet bull terrier. But this is undoubtedly not his last sojourn in the U.S. Says the guru: "Americans are good, loving and affectionate, law-abiding and disciplined. They have everything material; now they are searching for and deserve to find true happiness." Americans who encounter the guru return the compliment. Says Joy Anderson, a former dancer who now runs the Catskills ashram...
...third of the pie-even if it's the fattest, richest third." Jerry Bender, 38, was making $50,000 a year in Los Angeles as the chairman of two small film corporations when he began to feel unhappy about his high-pressure existence. "Now," he says of his sojourn at the ashram, "I'm in love for the first time in my life. I'm in love with life. Before this I was in business. Today I am more creative. When I go back to my business, I'll probably earn $200,000 a year...
This is hardly the ore of glistening literary biography and, save for a précis of Chandler's boozy sojourn in Hollywood -where he wrote the script for Double Indemnity and Strangers on a Train-McShane does little more than apologize for his reticent and rude subject. Like one of Marlowe's villains, Chandler was anti-Semitic and anti-Negro in inclination, alcoholic in practice and notably hostile even to those who praised...