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...April is the cruellest month." Not for about 100 years had Britain witnessed such a miserable April, replete with buzzards, rainstorms and-finally-flooding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cruellest Month | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...Eliot was wont to note, April is the cruellest month, but with yesterday's 42-degree, 35-miles-per-hour bluster, Harvard spokesman Spence Fitzgibbons put it better: "It was a really rude...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Dead Solid Tragic | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

THIS SPECULATION leads to the prophecies of a Cassandra, but the prospect of statehood does evoke ghoulish images. The cruellest trick for exterminating coyotes on the western ranges is to freeze a compressed spring inside a chunk of horsemeat. When the greedy animal gulps it down, his body heat melts the ice and the spring expands, piercing his stomach. It may seem expedient now to offer statehood to Puerto Rico rather than be discredited internationally as colonialists; to many Puerto Ricans it seems equally comfortable to be swallowed by the wealthiest best on earth. Ford could go down in history...

Author: By Dain Borges, | Title: Ford's Puerto Rico Gesture | 1/28/1977 | See Source »

...walls. But the sad truth was that he saw no real culmination, no climax to the whole thing. Harvard just sort of ended for him. Maybe everything would tie together when he took generals in the spring; probably not, certainly the weather would be better. April may be the cruellest month, but February is the worst. And by the time the weather improved maybe, just maybe, Beach would know what he would be doing after graduation...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Cutting the Old School Tie | 3/9/1974 | See Source »

...exactly thought that Eliot wrote "February is the cruellest month" the first time and had to be put right. But until 1968, all sorts of glum speculations were still possible. Then the only copy of the original manuscript turned up in New York. A brief critical glimpse-but no note taking-was permitted then, answering some questions, raising others. Now the poet's wife, Valerie Eliot, has brought out a facsimile edition of the original Waste Land. Complete with notes, a color key to distinguish Pound's editing from Eliot's, progressive handwritten and typed versions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Possum Revisited | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

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