Word: welshman
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...sons in a converted barn next to his parents' home in Derbyshire. There the Midlands meet the North Country and green hedges give way to gray stone walls. "Alan is a Derbyshire boy," says Actor Jeremy Brett, a close friend. "That's one better than being a Welshman. The Derby hills have a magic like the Welsh mountains, and they all get this folk mystique." Bates reveled in his role in Women in Love partly because it was filmed on location there and partly because he feels close to Fellow Midlander D.H. Lawrence. His part, in fact...
...prodigious endurance and good nature to resume his obliging cocktail-party manner after an already long evening. There he remained until well after midnight, still standing, talking to whomever could get a word in, turning his wit to whatever challenge was offered, land occasionally butting heads with a hairy Welshman named Thomas...
Philip Jones Griffiths is a young Welshman, a Magnum photographer-writer who worked in Viet Nam roughly for five years (1966-71). He hates the war, and his book, particularly the captions and brief texts that begin its various sections, will perhaps initially dismay even some readers who would like to run, not walk, to the nearest exit in Viet...
...claimed to be so wrapped up in his role that he was afraid he might actually kill Burton. "There are plenty of French actors in the world, but if you kill me you kill one-sixth of all Welsh actors," said Richard, forgetting for a moment that nearly every Welshman is an actor of sorts...
...been dismissed or at least promoted to emeritus status by a generation that has little patience with the cerebral and the courtly. Scores of collegiate poets and critics questioned by TIME correspondents on campuses across the U.S. found T.S. Eliot "irrelevant," Robert Frost "too provincial," Dylan Thomas a "phony Welshman," W.H. Auden "a poet for the middle-aged." These men still have admirers, but they lack followers. If among the enshrined elders the seating order has been changed-as in the latest photograph of the Soviet Presidium-William Carlos Williams is the new chief because he dealt with commonplace objects...