Word: young
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vocabulary once described as "ginger," and a face easefully lined, like the leather seats of an old Jaguar. Friends say that women tremble in his presence. E.P. Dutton Editor Tom Congdon describes an incident that occurred once when he was walking with Baker on Nantucket: a stunningly beautiful young woman on a bicycle asked for directions. "Russ ambled over to her and started to tell her, in his deep, soft voice, and I could see his effect on her. Her cheeks turned pink, and she had trouble speaking, and when she left, her bike sort of wobbled away...
...Baltimore's Union Square, where that famous curmudgeon H.L. Mencken lived. The future "Observer" satirist was unaware of that, though today he suspects that Mencken was the elderly gentleman who one day called the cops to chase Baker and some fellow ballplayers out of the square. In high school, young Russell was well liked, athletic (he ran the quarter mile) and showed promise as a humorist with a senior-year essay...
English class, "The Art of Eating Spaghetti." He barely remembers it and no copy has survived. Young Baker heard family stories of his mother's cousin, Edwin James, who was managing editor of the New York Times from 1932 to 1951, and understood the moral: words were a way out. He won a competitive scholarship to Johns Hopkins in 1942 and ambled through his first year with nonchalance...
...weekly article for the Sun called "Window on Fleet Street," which attracted the attention of another old London hand, James Reston, then Washington bureau chief of the New York Times. "It conveyed a sense of London, what the melody really was," says Reston today. So he made the young man an offer, and in 1954 Russell and Mimi returned to Washington...
...came to seem that this wasn't a worthy way for a grown man to spend his life. You have good seats, sure, but you're always on the sidelines. You're not making anything. Auden has a wonderful essay?it's in The Dyer's Hand?about how young people want to be writers. He says it's something the Greeks understood. The writer is somebody who makes something with his own hands. And he draws the distinction between being a maker and a drudge. Work is what a freeman did, and drudgery is what slaves did. Kids instinctively...