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When he reached his 30s, Heaney says he underwent a crucial transformation, moving back to the Irish country and spent four years concentrating solely on his poetry. “That clinched it,” he says, and so he began the long journey that would bring him into international acclaim as a writer and thinker...
...book is even more interesting as an archive of American humor. From the '30s until the '80s, Mankoff says, the punch line was in the third person: we were laughing at--not with--the figure in the cartoon: it was an era of screwball comedies, Jack Benny and cops chasing people through hallway doors. In a James Thurber cartoon, a man stops his date in the lobby of his building to say, "You wait here and I'll bring the etchings down." It's the Joey theory of humor...
...Depression she worked for the Agricultural Adjustment Agency and privately became a communist. Her leftist beliefs led Davis to attend radical writers’ workshop in 1939, where she met her fourth husband Robert Gorham Davis ’29, a Harvard professor in the ’30s and early ’40s . The couple wed shortly after and remained together until his death...
...30s, he remembers his mother’s relationships with others and the supportive presence...
...Captain is every bit as much an animated film as Shark Tale. Kerry Conran's script has a plot lifted and sifted from lots of '30s films--The Wizard of Oz, Lost Horizon and a dozen sassy newspaper comedies. But the technique is the star here: Conran's devising of a Deco-meets-delirium universe that he projected onto a blue screen, in front of which the game, clueless stars--Jude Law as the intrepid flyboy, Gwyneth Paltrow as a plucky news gal--recited their lines...