Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFTER reading this week's ESSAY, one of TIME'S editors abruptly abandoned his intention of having another try at Plato's Dialogues on his summer vacation, decided instead to take along The Cuckoo Line Affair, the love poems of John Donne, and Walbaum's Life...
Along with the lull in the fighting came a frantic flurry of diplomatic activity. At the United Nations, in London, Cairo and Belgrade, statesmen scurried about in quest of the magic formula to end the war. Among the few whose efforts deserved notice was veteran U.S. Ambassador-at-Large W...
"DORIS?" says a character in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus. "She's the one who's always reading War and Peace. That's how I know it's summer, when Doris is reading War and Peace." Whether or not Doris ever suffers through all 365...
...Gideon's Trumpet. Even in the remotest fishing village, the drugstore often offers a conscience-pricking range of paperback titles. Inevitably, as he scoops up Louis Fischer's Life of Lenin, Camus' The Plague, George Orwell's Essays, and four Ian Flemings for insurance, the vacationer is torn between dreams of intellectual grandeur and the gnawing suspicion that he will only finish the Flemings. Once again, the seasonal Shakespeare skimmer might observe, vaulting ambition hath o'erleaped itself...
In Third Day, Peppard learns from a medic that his "memory is on vacation." But under befuddled Director Jack Smight, none of Peppard's intimates react like normal human beings to the news that he cannot recall his name and address. A dithery old aunt (Mona Washbourne) starts spouting...