Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from such oblivion. He wrote A Passage to India (1924), a novel that not only surprised friends who thought he had dried up as an author but also made him world famous. And he lived for 91 years, well beyond such contemporaries as James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. To a remarkable degree, Forster ensured his claim on posterity by outlasting...
...sometimes the riled imagination can yield convincing ghosts. Says Marguerite Young, poet and author of the dreamlike novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling: "I see Emily Dickinson quite often, Virginia Woolf, and Dickens. Poe ... oh, all the time, I see him on misty nights at Sheridan Square when the raindrops are falling." Young admits her visions are irrational, yet they are real and useful to her. Even as balanced a writer as Susan Sontag summons up persuasive phantoms, those subtle abstractions that take shape in her essays but scarcely survive outside their contexts...
...battles of Liz and Dick echoed across oceans. Many critics thought him the greatest Hamlet of the era, and he received seven Academy Award nominations for his parts in such films as Becket, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But his greatest role was the one that both he and his audience seemed to enjoy best: Richard Burton, the romantic and joyous spirit. When he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the comparatively youthful age of 58, it was as if some clumsy stagehand had missed his cue and dropped...
...Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond and the lustrous Peregrina pearl that King Philip II of Spain gave Mary Tudor in 1554. Liz and Dick made a couple of good movies together, including Virginia Woolf and The Taming of the Shrew, and some fine glitzy entertainments, like The V.I.P.s, but for the most part their professional collaboration was disastrous, resulting in embarrassments like Hammersmith Is Out and The Sandpiper...
...part of London's bohemian Bloomsbury group, Keynes dined with such luminaries as Novelists Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. Those gatherings sharpened his Renaissance restlessness. For most of his life Keynes was simultaneously a don, a diplomat and a highly successful currency speculator. As his stature grew, his sexuality shifted. In 1925 Keynes wed the beautiful Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova. Their marriage endured for the rest of his life. So full were his days on earth that Keynes was able to recall only one regret shortly before his 1946 death: he was sorry, he said, not to have drunk...