Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn The 19-year-old novelist, a great-granddaughter of English Novelist Elinor Glyn, takes the reader on a hilarious guided tour of a Girl Guide summer camp, where chaos reigns unrestrained and girlish tears flow often...
...best woman poet in English," allowed Poet Robert Lowell. The 400 members and guests of the Poetry Society of America gave out a dithyrambic cheer of agreement as they presented the society's Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement to Marianne Moore, 79. Indeed, one member, Negro Poet Langston Hughes, was feeling so effusive that he followed Lowell to the podium to hymn "this wonderful and lovely lady." Marianne listened with a proud but astonished smile when Hughes, as a gag, pronounced: "I consider her the most famous Negro woman poet in America...
...danger, that is one English word Mario has never been able to understand. In Phoenix, while he was practicing for last week's U.S.A.C.'s Jimmy Bryan 150-mile race, his car went out of control and hit the wall at 130 m.p.h.; Andretti walked away from the wreck with minor bruises. Next day he cracked up again; this time he did not even have a bruise to show for it. "Oh. I've turned over a couple of times, and I've been against the wall," he says. "But I've never even broken...
...everything that I paint in this world," said the English mystic poet and draftsman, William Blake, "but everybody does not see alike." How vividly Blake's vision differed from that of ordinary mortals was illustrated once again last week when an English Blake enthusiast announced that he had unearthed from a castle in Ayrshire a notebook of Blake sketches that had not been seen publicly since...
Because of his two previous felony convictions, Hoodlum Konigsberg faced a maximum sentence of 174 years. But Kayo decided to keep on stalling. On the day of the sentencing, he launched into another four-hour speech-this time assaulting the English language along with other targets. "It is because of people like you, Mr. Court," he said to Gellinoff, "that justice has deterianated. It is bringing totarianism here. The court made 49 errors in law, and you foreclosed me in getting a fair trial. I will not kowtail to you or anyone else." Having thus blathered on, he next stood...