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Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's pays gleeful tribute to the most durable tandem sight gag ever sprung from Hollywood's Golden Age of comedy. Cinema Anthologist Robert Youngson (Days of Thrills and Laughter, When Comedy Was King) distills the best of this hilarious film from one-and two-reelers made before 1930. His narrative is merely connective tissue, and for no clear reason he rabbets in glimpses of Charley Chase and Max Davidson, two nearly forgotten second bananas from the Hal Roach studio. But blinking, head-scratching Stan Laurel and slow-burning, tie-twiddling Oliver...
...times. Such is Starting Out in the the thirties, a chatty tour of the Depression in New York and the generation of radical writers-John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Clifford Odets, James T. Farrell, Robert Cantwell-who, like Author Kazin, were starting out in the Thirties. An essayist, critic and anthologist (F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Man and His Work; The Portable William Blake), Kazin was born in a Brooklyn slum, the son of an immigrant Polish Jew. He got his first job, as a part-time book reviewer for the New Republic, in the summer of 1934 -"that bottom summer when...
...place work like Pope's Rape of the Lock?" he asks. "You could equally call it light verse or marvelous poetry. There is a certain way of writing which one calls light, but underneath it can carry a great depth of emotion." The McGinley verse, says Poet-Anthologist Louis Untermeyer, "has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry...
...holders, starting with John Quincy Adams, have been charged to pursue excellence "in the theory and practice of writing and speaking well, that is, with method, elegance, harmony, dignity and energy." Last week Harvard assigned the chair to methodical, elegant, harmonious, dignified, energetic Robert Stuart Fitzgerald, 54, poet, journalist, anthologist and translator of the classics...
...boarding school in Manhattan, where she soon met and married Louis Untermeyer, the brother of a schoolmate. Louis was then working as a salesman for his father's jewelry firm, but like Jean, he dreamed of escaping from Philistia to Bohemia. Both succeeded, Louis becoming an anthologist, poet, critic, and a man of many marriages-five in all, two of them to Jean. She plunged into music, poetry and the keeping of a salon, where she paraded such lions as Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound and Siegfried Sassoon...