Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aged eagles for a very long time indeed. It is, however, a little unfair of them to criticize us for being dull. It is not to be denied that our poets are dim, even the best of them. Yet this is entirely because they have been taught from earliest childhood that Mr. Eliot believes in Tradition, and that it is better in every way to be a good minor poet than a bad major...
...Anomalies of the breast in childhood . . . call for more attention from the physician in the present age because of accelerated trends contingent upon the Hollywood influences and the insane emphasis by modern advertising and the press upon this semi-respectable sex appendage. The array of bosoms now available to the naked eye is simply appalling, and it has its results early and late...
QUITE EARLY ONE MORNING, by Dylan Thomas (240 pp.; New Directions; $3.50), will scarcely affect posterity's view of Poet Thomas, for it is no more than a fragmentary prose footnote to his poetic genius. Composed largely of BBC talks on poetry and childhood reminiscences, the book suggests less how Dylan Thomas made a poem than how he made a living. But even as he fell back on lecturing for money to radio listeners and the matronly bands of U.S. "culture-vultures," as he called them, Poet Thomas whirled his economic crutch like a pinwheel. These pieces testify...
...official Soviet Encyclopedia, Vishinsky's past is prettily arranged for posterity. He appears as a revolutionary almost from childhood, a man persecuted by regimes hostile to progress, a brilliant and prolific author of legal works, a pillar of probity in the Soviet state. But then, of course, Vishinsky, once editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia, was able to rewrite history...
Soapbox Y. Salon. It is startling to recall that Wilde, whose works read like period pieces, and Shaw, whose works seem almost contemporary, were born in the same year. Shaw proved more durable: he grew old enough to reach his second childhood, while Wilde never quite outgrew his first. Yet, like Shaw, Wilde resembled a fountain of social defiance. Both men were socialists, both loved to confound and educate their audiences with startling paradoxes, both were masters of clear, succinct prose. One of the many major differences between them was that Shaw believed style to be a byproduct of sincerity...