Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next post she wangled him-"on Richard's solemn oath that he would act with 'unusual' prudence"-was the consulship at Damascus . . . "the dream of my childhood ... I am to live amongst the Bedawin Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...true child of Hollywood. Among her earliest memories are toddling as a tat after her father as he directed movie scenes. She was not, however, a child star in the Temple sense, and so had as normal a childhood as it is possible to have in Hollywood. Her juvenile film appearances were limited to a few baby shots and a scene in "Peck's Bad Boy" with Jackie Coogan, in which he stole her ice cream cone...
...first story, by Richard Scowcroft, is "The White Princess," announced as a chapter from a novel. It is a perceptive study of childhood, distinguished by the difficult balance it nearly maintains between humor and sentimentalism; its weakness is that it continues for at least one page after it is finished. The second story, enigmatically entitled "The Native In The World" (sometimes "The Native Of The World," which makes the matter no clearer) is by Howard Nemerov. Here, in the familiar world of the Houses, Dunster Street, and St. Clairs, we are invited to observe the psychological antics of unfamiliar characters...
...Anna Holm, Miss Crawford has borne her disfigurement since childhood, frightful to look at, she has turned crimnal to take revenge on a society which doesn't want her. Then she encounters a man who is not repelled by her ugliness-criminal aristocrat named Torsten Barring (Conrad Veidt...
...towards bringing more poetry to a larger audience. The three parts are "This I Know," a reaction to a world at war, "Hokusai Saw," an attempt to translate the atmosphere of Hokusai's Japanese prints into poetry, and "The Maples Are Red," an impressionistic chronicle of the author's childhood. "The Maples Are Red" is probably the best of the three. In his introduction Inman damns the "symbolic language" of the modern "esoteric fraternity." He says that he would "rather be a Herrick than a Donne, a Frost than an Eliot." The result of this preference is evident...