Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as his mate. When he quits job after job because, as he grandly announces, "I'm too good for that sort of thing," she knows he secretly believes he isn't good enough, but she protects his pride and does not tell him he is a coward. When he takes passage for Canada because, as he grandly announces, "Ireland is too small for me," she knows he secretly feels he's too small for Ireland, bu she protects his pride and does no tell him he is a fool...
ROME 12 NOON by Kenneth Macpherson. 319 pages. Coward-McCann...
...Bagley has already issued a similar collection of artifacts from Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. After Cole Porter, he plans to revisit Noel Coward and Jerome Kern. He has two recondite versions of Kern's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which was an early failure, having begun its existence, startlingly enough, as a military march called I'm Marching Off to War. Bagley also has some high-powered Coward, most notably an item called Carrie Was a Careful Girl, which is, of all things, a ballad about contraceptives...
...different as Turner ("He moves me like music") and the Pre-Raphaelites, and at the same time admires Tarzan comic strips. His resulting meditations lead him to jot down thoughts in a notebook. Mostly they are rather enigmatic: "This dirty juice, this thing much sanctified: this wine. This coward, this backward-looking fugitive: this Hero." But sometimes his jottings illuminate his sculptures-his half-noble, half-ridiculous Goliath, his David triumphant but howling with grief. Writes Ipousteguy: "Disfigured-transfigured, disfiguration-transfiguration; this is the only thing to remember about this man-and others...
HIGH SPIRITS. Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes are probably creatures of their own imaginations, since not even Author Noel Coward could quite conceive such zany stage sprites...