Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walk away if you see me coming, even if it's you I'm loving...
Outside the ground-floor dining room where he sits, the weather is Cheeverian, all high sky and searching sunlight. The author finishes a glass of iced tea and stands up, instantly alerting Edgar and Bathsheba, two adoring golden retrievers. An afternoon walk in the nearby woods is part of the daily routine. Cheever confines his writing-on "a long book"-to the mornings. He recently finished an original 90-minute play for public television, but fends off invitations to dramatize his stories for the home screen. "You can't adapt a story any more than you can adapt...
...walk describes a long circle and Cheever's house comes into view again. It seems a natural outcropping of the hill on which it was built 179 years ago. In his stories, Cheever has satirized the obsession to collect and preserve old things. "It represents inertia, lack of enthusiasm, everything I detest in life." Then the curator of his own stories laughs outright: "However, if you want to see my grandmother...
...only a storyteller." This insistence on the unities of plot and form has made Singer the greatest living 19th century writer and perhaps the only Nobel prizewinner with no pretensions whatever. The lively old figure, with eyes the color of the Israeli flag, dressed as for a formal walk on Warsaw's main street in 1928, has become a familiar one to shopkeepers of Manhattan's scruffy West Side. The author's first words, when informed of the Nobel Prize, were typically effacing: "Are you sure?" Singer has no plans to change either his life-style...
...Gomes's reaction when he happened to walk past the headquarters one day and saw our signs proves that there is substance to that nice guy image. He accepted our nomination on the spot. We knew he wouldn't mind being pope" Flynn added...