Word: isherwood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...columns, the original, or part-original, of Larry in Maugham's The Razor's Edge. I can stand a good deal of kidding from my friends, but this rumor has poisoned my life for the past six months, and I wish it would die as quickly as possible. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Santa Monica, Calif...
...Californians looked to the sky this time (as opposed to, say, the ground), they were once more affirming, as Christopher Isherwood advised, that to live there with peace of mind requires accepting the possibility of great reversal. "There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses," the late novelist wrote, "your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it and you will be happy...
...Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen reporter Julian Isherwood says the turmoil has prompted the committee to schedule an emergency meeting as soon as tomorrow to work out a compromise...
...mistake to think that California's glory days are over. It is still a land of infinite possibilities--a land not bound by tradition or by guilt. A land where shrimp scampi passes as a pizza topping. It is a tragic land, to be sure. As Christopher Isherwood saw, California "is a tragic country--like Palestine, like every Promised Land...
...public eye at first, the eyes of the masters: Vladimir Nabokov (White's literary hero) praised his first novel, and Gore Vidal hailed his second, Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978). A book of nonfiction titled States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980) enjoyed encomiums from Christopher Isherwood. In reviewing A Boy's Own Story (1982), the New York Times said, "Edmund White has crossed . . . J.D. Salinger with Oscar Wilde to create an extraordinary novel...