Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though a few indomitable souls like Enderby try to keep them alive. Their exteriors crumbling like the yellowing pages of an old Psalter, England's 10,000 or so picturesque country churches are sad reminders of a vanishing way of life. Except for occasional tourists, few people ever visit them; each year their congregations grow ever smaller. "There hasn't been a wedding here in twelve years," laments one venerable priest who stubbornly refuses to abandon his diminishing flock in the village of Ox-combe. "We only have funerals...
...recuperate at Baden-Baden or some other spa, imbibing mineral waters and immersing himself in medicinal mud at company expense. Other German executives annually are given blank airline tickets for themselves and their wives. They may fill out the tickets for "business" trips to any place they care to visit...
Nobody can beat the exhilaration of a pessimist who thinks the end-time has come. Writing slightly bad-tasting novels (Myra Breckinridge) and bland-tasting plays (Visit to a Small Planet) is just the start for Vidal. He keeps busy as an opinion maker, staging shoot-outs with William Buckley on TV and churning out some of the liveliest doomsday journalism ever, mostly in today's essay form, the book review...
...like an alert observer from a foreign-and slightly hostile-country ("American Empire" is one of his favorite phrases). On the subject of sex, he scarcely seems to belong to the human race at all, doing a marvelous impersonation of an anthropologist from Mars on a friendly but clinical visit...
...Great White Hope -- James Earl Jones' performance as black prize-fighter Jack Johnson is awe-inspiring--and makes a visit to this production worthwhile. But the play (by Howard Sackler) is generally awful and sometimes offensive -- unfocused, full of wretched excesses, and sociologically more pertinent to the forties than the sixties. Edwin Sherin's direction isn't much either, nor is the supporting cast--with the exception of Lou Gilbert as a much-tormented manager. At the ALVIN, W. 52nd...