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...Romantic Women Poets: "Elinor Wylie was the most crystalline . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay the most powerful and most popular. One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers: if only there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: View from Parnassus | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...must get in everywhere, even among the dark trunks I want the whisper of gleaming lights, so that this night there will be sweet blood for my cheeks..." It is a revelation. The other characters immediately realize what Blood Wedding is about; Whiting's cold assurance and Death's (Edna Selan Epstein) brilliantly fire the cast...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Blood Wedding | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Divorced. Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith), 41, five times world's middleweight champion; by ex-Showgirl Edna Mae Robinson, 38; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility; after 19 years of marriage, one son; in Juarez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 5, 1962 | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...beetles offer an easy answer for people who want to give a present to a Rockefeller; foreign bankers often arrive at the Chase New York offices bearing packages of beetles for David. "The rule is to cut the string and stand back," says David's long-suffering secretary, Mrs. Edna Bruderle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Man at the top | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1920-vintage, Pirandellesque "Aria da Capo" was presented last Saturday and Sunday at the Loeb Experimental Theater. The play was one-act, lasting a bit over twenty minutes. The audience at the first performance didn't in fact realize the play was over when it came to an end. They waited for more, not because they expected an explicit disentanglement of the sketch's nebulous events--probably they had already become familiar with the promising ambiguities of Pinter, Ionesco, Adamov, Genet--but because the classics of the theatre of the abstract have been long-winded...

Author: By Norris Merchant, | Title: Experimental Theatre | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

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