Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...special friend of pretension," Walter Scheel once said. Indeed he is not. He arrived in Moscow three weeks ago wearing a rumpled sports coat, striped shirt and red tie. He puffed on his Montecristo No. 1 cigars steadily throughout the twelve days of negotiations. One night he went on a tour of Moscow nightspots, ending up at the Slavyansky Bazar, a haunt of young Russians, where he danced exuberantly with bemused Russian girls. Certainly he represents a new school of diplomacy, whose members believe in direct and candid contact. To traditionalists he may appear frivolous, if not downright reckless...
...thorough discussion of Stevens' early work, most of which appeared in the Harvard Advocute and which Stevens later said gave him "the creeps" when re-eading them, and he is extremely helpful in tracing the formative influences on Stevens: Pater, Bergson, and especially George Santayana, who was a friend and teacher of Stevens while he was at Harvard. Morse's discussion of Stevens' three plays, with their curious chinoiserie, fanciful staging, and playfully symbolic characters is intelligent and helpful. And his account of the poems that were added, deleted, and emended in the course of the construction of Stevens' first...
Maria seems to have "all the aces," as a friend tells her, but she wonders: "What was the game?" She is still melancholic over her mother's death. She can scarcely focus on the few roles she gets. Her husband behaves either like a nagging parent or a smart-aleck child. Her friends are a menacing cadre of heartless hedonists-careless to the bone, drinking, turning on, brutalizing each other in word and sexual deed...
Homicidal Eve. Things happen: Maria aborts another man's child, tries to find the vanished Nevada hamlet where she grew up, is a passive accomplice in a friend's suicide. Mostly, though, the book is a fever chart of psychic pain. Maria cries constantly. She drives the freeways maniacally. She alternately ignores friends or calls them in the middle of the night. All of what Robert Lowell called "the kingdom of the mad"-its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye-is here. Maria's private hell is constantly invaded by real-life demons of the show business world...
...friend had observed, "my father's love for me, as your father's for you, has left me able to take up cycles of my own and to start them in my children." In this old-fashioned and wonderfully sentimental book, Kunhardt has evoked the sources of his own knowledge of and affection for life...