Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best of Audience in the past has been its poetry, and this edition features a few professionals, among others William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell, and Arthur Rimbaud. (Rimbaud's Rages de Cesars is published in apposition to Lowell's "Napoleon III, a translation and colloquialization of the former.) Williams offers a limp and muted tribute to Sibelius...
With Lombardy's best on display, a whole overlooked chapter of Italian art was reinserted into history. Milan could not muster the roll of masters that Venice and Florence boast, but it had its own great and distinctive charm. Summed up one Milanese critic: "It is not superb art, but it is never empty...
...going on, what with him out every night and coming home high all the time. The kids know, too, but they never let on to Pa, and Ma never really lets on to herself. "If you keep calm," she likes to say, "everything will turn out for the best...
...take your mother, Billy, she don't understand this. Oh, it ain't that I don't love my family; it's just that - it ain't enough. I mean, a man's got an obligation to himself, too, to be happy the best way he can. D'y'understand?" But how can a kid that age understand? Pa gives up and buys him a beer and goes off to see his girl...
...like I was 20 again, the way I never was, the way you and me never knew love could be like." She slaps him then, and he walks out, and the next day he comes back for his clothes. "I've tried; I've done my best," he tells her. "I've stayed and I've provided. Now I'm not going to stay here and grow old and die. I've wanted something better than this. You had the children, [and] you loved them the way you could never love a man." Alma...