Word: edna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARTHA GRAHAM SWIRLS towards the camera, her body twisted into an impossible arc of grace, seeming acres of white fabric billowing behind her. Gertrude Stein, draped in heavy black velvet, stares at the camera with a superior mixture of anger and amusement. Edna St. Vincent Millay struts militantly right up to the camera, clutching a placard that says "American Honor Dies With Sacco and Vanzetti!" Georgia O'Keefe will not look at the camera--she gazes instead at the dry colorless earth which stretches for miles in all directions...
...GEORGE S. KAUFMAN and EDNA FERBER...
Following graduation and a six-month sojourn in Europe, Reed settled down in Greenwich Village where he got a job on Max Eastman's New Masses. Here Reed came into contact with artists and intellectuals--Van Wyck Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Weber, and Eugene O'Neill among them--who pushed the tenor of political consciousness in the Village toward the Left...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay aroused both Wilson's intellectual and physical passion to "a blaze of ecstasy." But Millay, who had the same effect on dozens of men, was soon off for Europe. Wilson had to share his farewell embrace on a day bed with another admirer, John Peale Bishop, "I [holding] her lower half and John her upper-with a polite exchange of pleasantries as to which had the better share...
...some, old age means giving up solitary independence and moving in with their children. Sometimes that works out well. Edna Segar, 74, who plays the piano in a Culver City, Calif., senior citizens' dance band, finds the ar rangement fine. So do her son Donald, 54, and his wife Frances, 59. Says Donald: "You wouldn't throw your kids out, so you don't throw your parents out when they need...