Word: woodsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he is a big-city boy who was raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, James R. Schlesinger has the air and craggy looks of an American woodsman-aloof, self-contained and utterly confident that he can master whatever emergency may arise. He explains quite simply his willingness to take on the most difficult but also most challenging task that the Carter Administration could give him: "Any time the President of the United States asks one to do a job that's doable, it's one's obligation to do it." And Schlesinger is quite...
Perhaps the most moving story--and the most delightful--is the first one, "A Jew of Persia," where the folktale situation of a woodsman's encounter with the Devil is firmly set into twentieth-century Israel. When the situation is reversed and he is writing about everyday America, Helprin often feels compelled to use style and language to give his story an exotic strain. Helprin is not unique in his desire to blend the old and the new--he is following such writers as John Fowles and Isaac Bashevis Singer--but he has managed, through the juxtaposition of form...
...fake fur, depressed pelt prices, new roads and population growth. Such is the lure of the Alaskan wilderness, though, that perhaps 110 professional trappers are still at large. TIME's San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum visited one of them, Missouri-born Joe Delia, 40, a tall, rugged woodsman with hard, spatulate fingers, a laughing face and an abiding love for the outdoors. Birnbaum's report...