Word: pickwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lots small black boys play cricket. Inhabitants speak English with a very broad A. The British themselves do their best to carry on with the old precept of the "home away from home." After golf or tennis, they stop in at the club-the Polo (men only) or the Pickwick. The Polo provides two tables for volunteer snooker, a tattered copy of Punch, and a few low easy chairs in which members can order a whiskey-&-splash, and rehearse the good old days of rumrunning. The younger set prefer the Pickwick, for its jukebox...
...Charles Dickens, Forster presented the public with only the best of the man who was his best friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...
...struggle with Maria. As reporter for the Morning Chronicle he stood, note-taking, in Parliament, until his feet swelled, raced over England in post chaises, sometimes wrote all night-and managed at the same time to pen his first, instantly successful literary works: Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers. He gave up journalism after he married Catherine Hogarth, an unambitious, lethargic Scot, who once remarked of the Garden of Eden: "Eh, mon, it would be nae temptation to me to gae rinning about a gairden stark naked ating green apples...
...Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. "The most famous of all lawsuits in fiction is Bardell v. Pickwick for breach of promise of marriage. . . . Don't be discouraged by the dull opening chapter...
...Genius of Franklin, Riding the Range, The Big Canal); Tuesday shows are music (sample for Halloween: Danse Macabre, Grieg's March of the Dwarfs); Wednesdays are science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons; and Commentator Quincy Howe is moderator on the current events programs...