Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little border war could not be compared with the blood-soaked '20s (it took only 15 lives), but "the boys" managed to do $3,000,000 worth of property damage and pin down 5,000 ill-spared men of Britain's regular army, plus 5,000 militiamen, 15,000 constables and 1,500 special commandos. Last week, as it withdrew from the "occupied area" (i.e. Ulster), the "leadership of the resistance" announced that the I.R.A. had abandoned its war to reunite the Irish Republic with six Ulster counties...
...communicated much in the way of poetry, but they have come through loud and clear in the headlines. Dirty, noisy, loaded with banal aggression, The Beat Generation in the U.S. and the "Teddy-bards" in Britain have put poetry in the news for the first time since the '20s. ("The Beats have taken poetry out of the academic study," says one critic, "and put it in the subway restroom.") And the success of the uncouth has encouraged the couth, who are slowly but inevitably developing a new poetic tone, a tone less clever than Auden, more direct than Eliot...
Action poets delight most of all in action. On the page their poetry often appears to have been composed by the timely explosion of a type font, and sometimes it reads that way too. Like the Dadaists of the '20s, they like multiple exclamarks ("Gesture! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !") and capital letters...
...whose temporary literary power exceeded their permanent influence: Malcolm Cowley, editor of the New Republic, Granville Hicks, editor of the New Masses, Mike Gold and Lincoln Steffens at the hard core, Edmund Wilson and Dos Passos hovering on the periphery. They formed what Gold envisioned in the late '20s as "Communism's literary shock troops," and their motives, Aaron observes, were "by no means reprehensible.'' But within these limitations, he has sketched the choreography of a great troupe of American writers when they danced to Moscow's tune, through the New Deal and the united...
...young doctor tries to use his better judgment, but one night . . . and one night leads to another. They go south on a honeymoon that imperceptibly enlarges through the '20s like a tapeworm steadily devouring the doctor's morale as a man. She demands incessant attention; he gives it-partly for medical reasons, partly from husbandly affection, partly because he is too weak to resist: he has always had "a fatal desire to please." He begins to neglect his work, live on her money, belabor the booze. The tabloids play him up as a "playboy psychiatrist." And strangely...