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...popular among distinctly unjocose people. In Clock Without Hands, Novelist Carson McCullers repeatedly alludes to livingness-meaning, as Teacher Foote sees it, "the hum of hot blood, the buzz, the throb of passion," which is perhaps also "felt sappily by flowers and vegetables." Thingness, as used by Poet John Ciardi, "the sober Saul of modern letters," apparently connotes some ineffable quality of poetic words when uttered by a poet. When Novelist J. D. Salinger's Franny cries her eyes out in a ladies' room (Is she pregnant, hearing God, or what?), she observes the room's suchness...
Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). A historical drama about the Hamilton-Burr duel, with John Ciardi as host...
Perhaps if your critic spent less time rattling the dry, dirty bones of a dead beat, we might hear more of the quiet, honest, powerful "substance in us that prevails": John Holmes, Rolfe Humphries, John Ciardi, Paul Roche, William Carlos Williams...
Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). Author Oliver La Farge is interviewed by John Ciardi on the struggle of the Pueblo Indians to retain their ethnic identity. Show includes a tour of the famed Taos pueblo in New Mexico...
...Accent (CBS, 1:30-2 p.m.). Third Grade members of East Memorial School, Farmingdale, N.Y., read to Poet John Ciardi poems they have written themselves...