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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baker and his wife Mimi rent three floors of a four-story brownstone ("a dilapidation," they call it) on Manhattan's East Side. But the Bakers' beloved sheltering place is a gray shingle and white clapboard summer house on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. It was built by a whaling captain in 1835, at the height of the island's seafaring prosperity. Its present owners seem comfortable there, and with each other. Tall, handsome and merry of heart, Mimi is a good conversational match for Baker, and people who know the pair well tend to say "they" when talking of them, rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Humor Man | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Humor Man | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Social historians will date the decline of the cocktail party from the summer of 1975, when chic people first asked for "a little white wine with soda and ice," instead of the traditional rum, whisky or gin. The reasons for this shift are obscure. It is usually said that Americans became tired of being blasted out of their heads by strong drink, but this makes little sense. The only point of a cocktail party was to take leave of the senses, it being universally understood that nobody in his right mind would want to be present at one ... A likelier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Baker Sampler | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...STYLIST A long time ago I lived in a crossroads village of northern Virginia and during its summer enjoyed innocence and never knew boredom, although nothing of consequence happened there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Baker Sampler | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...heat of summer was mellow and produced sweet scents which lay in the air so damp and rich you could almost taste them. Bees buzzed in the clover. Far away from the fields the chug of an ancient steam-powered threshing machine could be faintly heard. Birds rustled under the tin porch of the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Baker Sampler | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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