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This is not to say that Taylor is provincial. Between graduation and his return to Cambridge, he tried out for the Olympic squad, and, failing that, wound up with a semi-pro team in Waterloo, Iowa. The U.S. Hockey League, which produced NHL players like Bill Masterson and Lou Nanne after the first expansion, gave Taylor a chance to start his coaching career...
...cubist fortress. Yet, looking out from its wide cantilevered terraces, one might be on the bridge of an ocean liner. Scanning the Thames from its South Bank, one sees the helmeted dome of St. Paul's to the right, and on the left, the smoothly scalloped arches of Waterloo Bridge. Within the building, the staggered lobby levels form spacious coves of unanticipated intimacy, soon to be thronged with hosts of theatergoers...
...toward the sun, which then draws it forward and out"; a crystalline day of fishing on a Minnesota lake; brave old houses that shudder at North Dakota blizzards but withstand them. As fondly as an oldtimer, Woiwode, 33, compares the merits of long-forgotten tractor brands (the Hart Parr, Waterloo Boy, Rumley Oil Pull) and stocks a winter larder as it was in the days before home freezers: "The potato bin was full. There were parsnips, kohlrabi, turnips and rutabagas, all dipped in paraffin to preserve them, in other bins, and carrots buried under sand...
...exile on the island of Elba. It continued for much of the following year, even while the French Emperor made his last futile effort, in the famous Hundred Days, to recapture the glory that had been his France. After Wellington put an end to that dream at Waterloo, the leaders of Europe's Quadruple Alliance -Czar Alexander I of Russia, Frederick William III of Prussia, Lord Castlereagh of Britain and, above all, Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich of Austria -were free to determine in Vienna the future of the Continent...
Anyone who has faith in the veracity of that anecdote may also wish to make a down payment on Waterloo Bridge. As this grab bag of 484 snippets of British literary gossip demonstrates, when the unvarnished truth is lost a lacquered fabrication will do handsomely. Editor Sutherland, a professor at the University of London, may claim to have weeded out proven forgeries and falsehoods. But he readily admits to choosing (when more than one exists) the stylish version of each story, even though "it may have no apparent authority." And why not? As a class, authors may have no more...