Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813) "'Then,' observed Elizabeth, 'you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman.'"
George H. Mayer: The Republican Party: 1854 - 1966 (1964) The late Prof. Mayer taught (he would have said 'attempted to teach') me history in college, and I went with him to the NWF province of Pakistan in 1972 to climb -- well, attempt to climb -- Tirich Mir.
Eric Newby: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958) "Far away to the east-north-east was the great snow-covered mountain we had seen from the wall of the east glacier, Tirich Mir, the 25,000-foot giant on the Chitral border . . . ." (The main summit of the Tirich Mir massif is 7,706m, or 25,283f.)
Favorite Films
Dead Again (1991) Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, directed by Branagh. A genuinely weird film.
K2 (1992) Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, directed by Franc Roddam. Why am I the only person who thinks this is a great film? The first 10 minutes alone are worth the ticket price.
Two for the Road (1967) Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney, directed by Stanley Donen. I saw Two for the Road for the first time stretched out on a grassy hill at Neve Eitan. I can't recall if there were Hebrew subtitles, but once or twice I laughed and the Israelis didn't. Then, always on the lookout for some new American idiom, they turned to me and demanded an explanation of the joke.
How to Steal a Million (1966) Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, directed by William Wyler. Audrey Hepburn in a yellow E-type roadster? Then, of course, there're the closet scenes with Hepburn & O'Toole.
"I take care to travel only on Italian ships because, in the event of disaster, there is none of that nonsense about women and children first." Noel Coward, quoted in The Week
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