Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. A distinguished and versatile critic gathers shards of youthful experience into a memoir that says farewell to the innocence-his own and the country's-that was shattered by World War I. The same experiences help his rather stilted early stories, GALAHAD and I THOUGHT OF DAISY, now reissued, to hold up as searching documentaries...
...PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE by Edmund Wilson. 278 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
GALAHAD and I THOUGHT OF DAISY by Edmund Wilson. 316 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...When Edmund Wilson was starting out as a $15-a-week reporter on the old New York Evening Sun, an editor rejected his first attempt at an editorial by chiding him: "You don't want to write like Dr. Johnson." The editor was obviously no judge of future men of letters. Today, 51 years and 33 books later, Wilson has in fact become something of a 20th century Samuel Johnson...
...midst of the rioting, leaders of Roxbury organizations began meeting with each other and with Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara to seek ways of calming the situation, while youths in the street threatened more violence for the coming night...