Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poems struck many readers as acts of mind reading. There was no need for them to memorize Eliot; he had, it seemed, already memorized them. He became famous by age 35 without growing satisfied with his accomplishments or happy with himself. Words were not enough. Behind the lectures and public appearances of the latter decades -- the tall, stooped figure in the three- piece suits, issuing pronouncements -- was concealed a soul in torment, trying to purge itself of sin and of the world that lavished so much praise on what he considered his unworthiness before...
...fastidiously private about his inner life. Several important caches of the letters are still embargoed until the next century. But his spiritual autobiography, the only sort that mattered to him, is displayed throughout his poems. The Waste Land, it is now clear, is not simply an impersonal, jazz-age jeremiad. It is also a nerve- racking portrait of Eliot's emotional disintegration during his 20s: his emigration, against his family's wishes, from the U.S. to England and, once there, his disastrous marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, a vivacious but increasingly unstable partner whom Virginia Woolf once described...
...yellow journalism. It soon won a reputation for thoughtful, analytical coverage of foreign events. In the 1970s, however, its readership began to dwindle. Worldwide circulation last year was 176,000 -- up from a 1982 low of 144,000 but still small for a national daily. Worse, the median age of its readers is a mature 58. The paper last turned a profit in 1961; this year's losses are expected to total $15 million...
This deflection of scrutiny away from himself toward the playing field is typical of Giamatti. He is, at age 50, an unabashed baseball freak, an older version of the boy who grew up in South Hadley, Mass., being taught to love the Boston Red Sox by his father, a professor of Italian at Mount Holyoke College. Faithful to his genteel upbringing, Giamatti neither seeks nor seems to relish attention. He keeps his private life just that; Toni, his wife of 28 years, two sons and a daughter are all rigorously shielded from outside prying. It is also true that during...
...many parks that now sometimes compete with the game in progress? "Look," he will answer in spite of himself, "I'm not some kind of Luddite, baying at change." And then he is off and running. "The screen is the most visible symbol of our high-tech age, and here it is, plunked down in this ancient coliseum. It's only been around for ten years or so. We need to determine its proper venue...