Word: cheever
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's and women's cross country teams had a tough afternoon running in the rain and mud at HYP's in Princeton, N.J., yesterday. Yale captured both the Main Memorial Trophy with a victory in the men's race and the Cheever Memorial Cup for a women's triumph...
...Barry '70, Mary Summers '70, Virginia Vogel Zanger '70-'72, Sylvia Lester '70, Felice Perlman '71-'73, Lowry Hemphill '72, Jonathan M.Harris '69-'71, Jean Alonzo '59, Charles Bernstein '72, Daniel Gilbarg '68, David Schuldberg '72-'73, Jonathan Walters '71, Judith E. Smith '70, Frances A. Maher '64, Holly Cheever '71, Ellen Gesmer '71-'72, Bernie Blustein '72-'73, Paul R.Harrison '72, Michael D.Cohen '70, Michael Ansara '68, J. Kenyon Chapman '69, Robert Kessler '71, Rebecca Klatek, Jane Stein '71, Nathan L. Goldshlag '71, Mark R. Dyer '70-'72, Joshua Freeman '70, Katha Pollitt '71, James H.Barton '58, Katherine...
Although he was a faithful letter writer, Cheever assumed that his pen pals would destroy his missives as casually as he did theirs. He was thus startled in 1959 to hear from author Josephine Herbst that she had been saving his mail. "Yesterday's roses," he wrote back, playfully dismissing her collection of his work, "yesterday's kisses, yesteryear's snows." Cheever's unselfconscious approach allowed his imagination and love of language free play. The supposedly ephemeral results of this process were, paradoxically, often memorable. Here is a 1946 description of his surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire...
...Cheever regularly threw away sentences that lesser talents might have hoarded, had they been capable of writing them at all. As a first-time parent, he confided, "Sending a child off to nursery school is like sending your bottom drawer off to the board of health." He could mock others, wickedly: "Edmund Wilson has printed a collection of questionable short stories and in one there is a long description of carnal copulation which would have done carnal copulation irreparable damage if it hadn't been quite as deeply rooted." And he could make fun of himself, including his diminutive...
This sounds like overstatement, and probably was. But Cheever, as he confided in another letter, believed that "interest is the first canon of aesthetics." Whatever he wrote about -- his work, his wife and children, his Labrador retrievers, his problems with alcohol and homosexuality -- he never forgot to keep his correspondent engaged and amused. Those who received his letters were lucky. This book extends the range of their good fortune...