Word: rapallo
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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After Yeats. "Old Ez," as he calls himself, has spent so many years in voluntary exile-London, Paris, Rapallo-that it is easy to forget him as an American. His ancestors came over on the same boat as Roger Williams. Two hundred of them fought in the Revolutionary War, and the towns of Weston in Massachusetts and Connecticut are named after them. Ezra was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885, grew up in Wyncote, Pa., attended Hamilton College, and got an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He had sound taste even then. At 18, he told his friend William...
Portrait of Max, by S. N. Behrman. A fond, endearing portrait of Sir Max Beerbohm, whom the author met in Rapallo during the sixth decade of that sempiternal Edwardian's self-declared...
...from the literary scene to make way for "younger, men." The last possible launching date for his career as an old party is 1910 when, after twelve years as drama critic for London's Saturday Review, the 48-year-old Max took his actress-bride Florence Kahn to Rapallo, Italy for a life of almost unbroken retirement...
...parts now run in three, and in the case of S. N. Behrman's recent seven-part profile on Max Beerbohm, a good-sized short story might have been told in the space it took Behrman just to arrive at his first meeting with Beerbohm, outside Rapallo. William Shawn, Ross's successor as editor, once told a friend over a drink: "The stories just seem to get longer-I don't know...