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...that elusive bent of mind. The answer which rises out of The Tugman's Passage is a very qualified yes. Hoagland has a small measure of that extraordinarily rare common sense... the kind which seems so utterly obvious once we have encountered it and cannot image the ignorance we bore earlier--which one senses in Thoreau, Orwell, and occasionally, E B White Hence. Hoagland's best stuff in The Tugman's Passage, the two essays "The Ridge-Slope Fox and the Knife Thrower" and "Women and Men," sparkle...
...read very little contemporary fiction, although he enjoys studying the works of other authors to discern their techniques: "I read a lot of books." For pleasure, the Connecticut-based author re-reads Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh: "But most specifically and definitely not Brideshead. It's a sumptuous bore. "However, he has nothing but praise for fellow fiction author John Updike and his latest, Rabbit is Rich...
Orson Welles, 66, on why he does not pray: "I don't want to bore God. God is an artist...
...islands, though it had certain serious overtones indicating Buffett had done some growing up. Some of the tracks, such as those about his little daughter and his memories, appeared to indicate the aging of the man who claimed he was "Growing Older But Not Up." Coconut Telegraph bore some thematic resemblance to Volcano and Son of a Son of a Sailor, released in 1979 and 1978 All three focused on the carefree life of the wooden-boat sailor, with references to Montserrat and St. Thomas and only occasional glimpses of the serious side of a singer usually photographed...
...Churchill would "make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults are carefully crafted in Britain; Haig's was an impulsive throwaway. So there is no direct damage, except in embarrassment to Haig the next time he greets Carrington. It may even be mildly reassuring...