Word: caedmon
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Dylan Thomas died a year ago last November. Like all good poets, he lives in his lines. Like none before the 20th century, he lives also in his own reading of those lines. The success of Caedmon's Dylan Thomas disks (25,000 copies sold in three years) is only part of a current boom in "speaking records." The idea itself is as old as the phonograph.* But recently, literature for listening rather than reading-"the book that talks"-has won a major place on U.S. bookshelves...
...that enlargement was already desirable. Man in his Penultimate War was saying words that had to be recorded." Voices that had seemed too faint in the '30s (Winston Churchill was not even included) were now fairly screaming for attention. Result: the editors have left Bartlett unchanged from Poet Caedmon (A.D. 670) to Poet Rudyard Kipling, but from there on nobody will recognize the old household...
...acid commentary of life as it is lived by the landed gentry south of the Mason Dixon line. Many of her observations in "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers" are shrewd, tart, and occasionally funny. But her quips, weighted as they are beneath a style which apparently goes back to Caedmon and Cynewulf for its model, have a difficult struggle to survive. They decorate but unfortunately do not obliterate the story, which is negligible and deals with a lady with the amorous sensibilities of a Belgian hare and a gentleman, her husband, who man ages to wander through the entire book...
...even tenor of his lecture when a student raised his hand for a question and inadvertently he recognized him. The student asked his question and the professor turned to his notes. "It doesn't say," he admitted. More guarded was the Anglo-Saxon instructor who lost his copy of Caedmon and dismissed the class for a week...
...syndicated wreath on the grave of the supreme liar of history. The dramatic example which clinches the justification of lying further serves to revivify the long-dead Ananias. Were a man chasing a woman with intent to kill and the woman slipped down a side street unobserved. Dr. Caedmon asserts that he would feel no scruples in misdirecting her pursuer...