Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DIED. Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84. English novelist and short-story writer who probed the small conceits of her humdrum characters with a tartly satirical eye; in Maiden Newton, England. Warner met success early when her first novel (Lolly Willowes) became a premier selection by the fledgling U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, but she showed an enduring talent with her genteel, Victorian prose (The Museum of Cheats, The Flint Anchor). A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she also won acclaim as a poet (Time Importuned), a translator (Marcel Proust on Art and Literature...
Robert Frost. Hannah Arendt, Lionel and Diana Trilling. Saul Bellow, Sylvia Plath...
...given his age as 121 when he interviewed him in 1970 claimed to be 132 only four years later. Leafs doubts were subsequently confirmed by two more scientists. Studying baptismal and other records, University of Wisconsin Medical Physicist Richard Mazess and University of Massachusetts Anthropologist Sylvia Forman concluded that some of the local Methuselahs had lied about their ages and that previous researchers were all too eager to accept their claims. In fact, say Mazess and Forman, there is not a centenarian in the lot-the oldest villager...
...effects. As he begins stuffing faded letters and papers into the kitchen stove, who should shuffle in and plop into his favorite armchair but old Da himself (Barnard Hughes)? Only to be followed by Young Charlie (Richard Seer), Charlie's teen-age self; Mother (Sylvia O'Brien); and Drumm (Lester Rawlins), a dour early employer given to pungent maxims: "Marriage is the maximum loneliness with the minimum of privacy." The play proceeds by anecdotes and episodes, some funny, some sad, all telling. Leonard makes the pas sage of time itself a major character in Da. What time does...
...large, amorphous body out of which protrude flipperlike limbs and a face without a single redeeming feature." To Simon, Maggie Smith resembles "an upstart rooster aspiring to barnyard supremacy." Glenda Jackson "has the looks of an asexual harlequin." Most leading ladies suffer Simon silently, but after he characterized Sylvia Miles as a "party girl and gate crasher," she dumped a plate of food on him in a Manhattan restaurant...