Word: couching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Viking Book of Poetry (Viking; $3.50), compiled by Richard Aldington, is, by & large, the best compendious poetry anthology in the English language. Less elegant than Palgrave's Golden Treasury, less aristocratic than Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, it is bigger around the waist than they are, represents in its format and arrangement a superb job of publishing. Anthologist Aldington, in making his selections from the entire body of English and American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great...
Young Idas tossed upon his couch...
...scene (same set throughout) is apparently the reading room of a public library. But it is obviously not quite an ordinary reading room. In a revolving door a shawled figure treads slowly round & round; the pretty librarian reclines on a couch; one of the readers wears a small coffin as a shoe (he has one foot in the grave) ; another is gloomily reading Joyce's Ulysses for the third time. Nobody is at all surprised when a Negro, uniformed like a doorman and blowing a bugle, heralds the approach of Mr. Jim Dandy-a fat man with no visible...
Died. Harvey Crowley Couch, 63, the Southwest's No. 1 utilitycoon, Arkansas's wealthiest citizen; at his summer home on Lake Catherine near Hot Springs, Ark. Son of a farmer-preacher, he had saved $156 by the time he was 26, put it into a partnership with a village postmaster and strung a telephone line from Arkansas into neighboring Louisiana. He built it into a four-State line and sold it nine years later to Bell Telephone for $1,500,000. He used the money to organize Arkansas Power & Light, built that into a $71,000,000 colossus...
...Jacob L. Moreno describes the life at his Psychodramatic Institute in Beacon, N.Y. Psychodrama is Dr. Moreno's method for treating mental ills-a sort of theatrical psychoanalysis which he uses for troubled mortals, as well as for Hitlers and Hamlets. Instead of lying on a couch and confiding their woes to a psychoanalyst, patients act out their problems, impromptu, on a bare little stage. Many a patient who is hostile or shy refuses at first to take part, suddenly blurts out his hidden neurosis...