Word: hoagland
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Among many other things. Edward Hoagland '54 knows juneberries. Moreover, he writes about them and about others of the curios of creation, whether of the natural world or of the more inorganic human one in that hard to define genre of the personal essay. His field of vision is broad. Most adept at chronicling the my read delicate changes and processes of the wilderness. Hoagland is also prescient in his observations of the doings of his own species. With equal amounts of aplomb, he explores topics as varied as the mating habits of the porcupine and the divorce customs...
...Hoagland's latest collection of essays. The Tugman's Passage, provides a handful of these observations which testify strongly to the author's boundless curiosity. From the title essay about the life and work of tugboat sailors to the last of the short editorials on nature that Hoagland pens of the New York Times, the work are highly crafted. In stylistic terms, Hoagland's reputation as one of the foremost essayists working is well deserved, he has a terrifically readable idiom of his own fashioning at once colloquial, rhythmic and incredibly even. His writing gives a sense of quiet passion...
...handsome, white-haired woman who does not suffer tourists lightly: "Alf is too kind. I send them packing." And there have been lampoons of the now familiar Herriot style. Monty Python kidded the title verse: "All things gross and angrenous. All creatures gross and squat." Nature Writer Edward Hoagland parodied the books in the New York Times: " 'It's time t'awd bitch was up,' I said. I put my arm up her lug end to untwist her uterus ... 'If tha'll just wipe off the fly that's on my snout, Colonel...
Several journalists, venturing into the countryside to search out the facts for themselves, were engulfed in the violence. Among the casualties were Photographers Susan Meiselas, 32, on assignment for TIME; John Hoagland, 33, working for Newsweek; and Ian Mates, 26, a South African cameraman for a London-based television organization. Their small Japanese car was the target of a remote-controlled Claymore-type antipersonnel mine on a road about 15 miles north of San Salvador. Mates suffered severe head wounds from steel splinters and died the next day in a local hospital. Meiselas and Hoagland were evacuated...
...Hoagland is hardly the first observer of animals and lairs to balance between the rough call of the woods and the concentrated frenzy of big city living. Since Thoreau, the American essayist has been torn by the happy agony of deciding whether to leave the city for the country, and upon leaving, when to return. Nowadays the tension of two homes is stock-in-trade for the essayist, though few display the pertinacious ease and delight with acquired folkways that distinguish both Hoagland and his counterpart, John McPhee...