Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacDonald has written a fairly competent extended metaphor comparing the sea to a woman. He rather successfully captures both the rise and fall of the swells and their dark, light-drowing power. There is a strong suggestion of death wish and a good bit of alliteration. One line--"While limbs loll out long like a lover"--seems to have little meaning within the context of the poem, but the image is satisfying, and it trips off the tongue nicely. Fred Seidel's poem about death is filled with images. It is not as obscure as it might have been...
...prose nor its poetry so much as its new, businesslike format and its equally serious policy of having a lead editorial or review in every issue. The first of these, Charles Sifton's review of Leslie Fiedler's essays, handles an important topic with some comprehension and a bit of felicitous expression. The Advocate is at last beginning to advocate something, if only as an appreciation of others' ideas. Eric Martin's cover is pleasant enough, but its light blue might have appealed more in warmer weather. Biddle and Midgette illustrate well, as usual...
...hostel, where daily she feeds some 200 to 300 and nightly shelters 60 men and women, a rumpled, seam-faced man stepped from the knot of drifters and pressed something into her hand. "I just read about your trouble," he said. "I want to help out a little bit. Here's two-fifty." She thanked him, but it was not until she was in the subway that she noticed she was holding a check not for a mere $2.50 but for $250. It was signed by the prestigious British-born U.S. poet, W. H. (for Wystan Hugh) Auden. "Poets...
...something vital he overlooks: that there was warm blood as well as cold in Richard's medieval veins. By playing it completely cold in the first half of the play, he forfeits much of the sympathy that is due Richard in the second. Nevertheless, give or take a bit here and there, the best actor of his time has presented the moviegoer with the best Richard of this generation. In Shakespeare's words: "The king enacts more wonders than...
...history of this recurrent American dream is unrolled with an unerring sense for drawing every last bit of humor from the situation. There are a few sub-happenings, like Blandings' professional struggle--he has to invent a new slogan for Wham Ham, Inc. There is also his wife's old but incipient romance with their old lawyer friend Bill Cole. But most of the action plods around the single spectre of Blandings getting fleeced...