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...woman who stopped writing when her publisher rejected one of her manuscripts. A Very Private Eye, an autobiography drawn from her diaries to be published next spring, gives a livelier picture. A lawyer's daughter from Shropshire, she lived an intense student life at Oxford in the '30s. Her knowledge of the sad imbalances of love came from several unfortunate affairs. Her first book, Some Tame Gazelle, about middle-aged sisters, was written in 1935 when she was 21 (it was revised and published 15 years later). Already certain she would be a writer, she fashioned the story...
These Americans are in their 30s today, but back then they were the Now Generation. Right Now: give me peace, give me justice, gimme good lovin'. For them, in the voluptuous bloom of youth, the '60s was a banner you could carry aloft or wrap yourself inside. A verdant anarchy of politics, sex, drugs and style carpeted the landscape. And each impulse was scored to the rollick of the new music: folk, rock, pop, R & B. The armies of the night marched to Washington, but they boogied to Liverpool and Motown...
...acute focusing of effort cannot be repeated endlessly. A German mountaineer who in his 20s spent three frightful weeks on the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland during midwinter laughs about the recollection and says that he does not do such things now that he is in his 30s. He pulls out his wallet like a traveling businessman and shows a picture of his wife and two sons. "This is what I think about...
...early 30s, with no experience whatsoever, Houseman found himself in Harlem, directing the first production of the Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Not long afterward he became Orson Welles' principal collaborator in the renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some...
...Fathers dryly states that Zelig symbolized the early 20th century Jewish immigrant: "He wanted to assimilate like crazy." Through this character Allen more than ever before finally captures the American mentality. Noting the violent vicissitudes of the bizarre man's career, Howe observes "that's what the 20s and 30s were like...