Word: brinnin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL. "Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe." John Malcolm Brinnin, Thomas' biographer, narrates a portrait of the Welsh poet in still photographs, recorded excerpts from Thomas' works and interviews with friends...
...play is not the equal of its star. It dwells on the collected anecdotes and cocktail parties of the lecture tours, the college-girls sedulously seeking Dylan's sexual autograph, the bar-buddy publisher, the biographer (John Malcolm Brinnin) who invited, chaperoned and wrote about Dylan Thomas in America. But these are the faintest echo chambers for the conflict that split Thomas' skull. The torment of the lyric poet is that lyric poetry is essentially a young man's form. The time comes when the world must be seen more through the eyes of wisdom than...
...current command. This doctrine seems to be most firmly held by the illustrators. Among these practitioners it seems to be an article of faith that pictures in a child's book should be doodled childishly. Arthur, the Dolphin Who Didn't See Venice, by John Malcolm Brinnin, illustrated by Andre François (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $2.95), is a cautionary example. Venice, the most beautiful city in the world, is a crude sand castle, and the dolphin, the most beautiful of marine animals, is a mudfish. The people who conspire in this sort of thing are doubtless dutifully...
...escaping gas, in the apartment of an admirer who lies sprawled nude on the sofa. The girl dies immediately, but Clem lingers several days-time enough for the "trooping animals," with "a brutish anxiety not to let him go," to cluster in the hospital. Novelist Cassill parrots John Malcolm Brinnin's gruesome description of Dylan Thomas' similar death in an oxygen tent, concluding with the moment in which a fellow poet clasped "the cold, yellowing feet" of the corpse "in a gesture either of pleading or of farewell...