Word: beggarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kenneth Koch's verse, as he himself describes it, struts "on a pilgrimage of music." Exhibiting a lively manipulation of language, Koch, however, sometimes plays vaguely with ideas that fail to fit the form be constructs so well. Two poems by Seymour Lawrence, "City Nun," and "The Beggar," present an honest attempt by their author to escape the introspective not that seems to have enmeshed most young writers. Both Koch and Lawrence received honorable mention in the Garrison Prize competition...
...Duke toured Europe triumphantly twice, sold over 20 million records, scored a Broadway show (Beggar's Holiday) and was an early invader of now easily invaded Carnegie Hall. Despite all these achievements, he likes to appear indolent. Says he: "My idea of a vacation is just to go home, lie in the bed, if the phone rings pick it up and tell them I don't feel like it." Some of his critics bemoan his constant concertizing in recent years, and the pretentious kind of symphonic jazz he has written for Carnegie Hall (New World A'Comin...
Young Attorney Aléman found success quickly in the person of a little old man with a racking cough. Aléman first saw him under the Caballito monument at the head of the Paseo de la Reforma, and took him for a beggar. But the man refused money and said he was a miner far gone with tuberculosis. Aléman questioned him, took him home, persuaded him to see a doctor. The verdict: not TB, but silicosis. In the name of the old man, Pedro Aguayo, Aléman filed suit against the mining company...
...Bogotá's beggars have yet to reach the imaginative heights of the Chilean beggar who carried a closed coffin on his shoulders through Santiago streets, asking alms to bury his dead child. Prying police found pesos in his pockets, no corpse in the coffin...
...volumes of his journal, two autobiographical novels and many other works* during his 71-year lifetime that ended in 1917. But none sold enough copies to relieve him of the necessity of begging from his friends, from tradesmen, from strangers, to keep his wife and two daughters alive. Yet Beggar Bloy said no polite thank-yous to society. His writings alternated perfervid religious devotion with savage, four-letter-word vituperation against solid bourgeois values...