Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both incarnations, he occasionally indulges a well-cultivated taste for Dubonnet, Scotch, brandy, port or stout. Even Moynihan's critics concede that his unfailing Irish wit and cheer make him a good man to take on a pub crawl...
...staggering 3,800 of them survive. Editors Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann have decided to publish most of the missives in a series of six stout volumes. This first installment, which collects Virginia's correspondence between the ages of six and 30, includes a glut of juvenilia and ends on the eve of her first publication, before she had become the Virginia Woolf of literary history. Yet it provides the undeniable fascination of watching her become that woman...
...they told him last month that they were going to launch an "investigation" of Economics Professor Milton Friedman and his ties with economists in the Chilean junta. A vigorous defender of academic freedom, Wilson replied that he would not tolerate an inquisition. In other matters, Wilson is also a stout individualist; he even turns out to watch Chicago's largely ignored football games...
Died. Rex Todhunter Stout, 88, premier American whodunit writer, whose corpulent orchidologist-detective, Nero Wolfe, with the help of his faithful legman Archie Goodwin, solved crimes in 46 books that were translated into 22 languages and sold more than 45 million copies; at his home in Danbury, Conn. As sinewy and energetic as his protagonist was fat and lethargic, Stout would work out the story line for such mystery novels as The Doorbell Rang and Too Many Cooks while puttering about his daily cooking or gardening chores, then sit down and type out a complete mystery in 38 days...
...Stout relishes such topical references; they are an octogenarian's way of exhibiting an elastic, contemporary mind. Indeed, a few years after entering his eighth decade he wrote a Jesuit priest friend, signing himself Rex Stout, S.J.-for "still jaunty." So is Wolfe, who this time even goes to jail and gets his license suspended rather than tell the police anything about his own highly personal family affair. When the master detective has finally cracked the case, he settles back to "read books, drink beer, discuss food...logomachize with Archie." He asks a listener, "Shall I iterate and reiterate...