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...hand of Ezra Pound, more strongly than any other, shaped the dominant style of 20th century poetry in English. Born in 1885 in an Idaho mining town, he flourished from 1907 in London and Paris as the friend of Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, the discoverer of Frost, the teacher of Eliot (who dedicated The Waste Land to him) and even of Yeats. But sometime in the 1930s something went tragically askew. The man Eliot called "the greatest poet alive" lapsed into an aging crank, teasing out nutty monetary theories, making Fascist noises about "international Jewry" as "the true enemy," stuffing...
...youthful poetic imagination for years, have now been dismissed or at least promoted to emeritus status by a generation that has little patience with the cerebral and the courtly. Scores of collegiate poets and critics questioned by TIME correspondents on campuses across the U.S. found T.S. Eliot "irrelevant," Robert Frost "too provincial," Dylan Thomas a "phony Welshman," W.H. Auden "a poet for the middle-aged." These men still have admirers, but they lack followers. If among the enshrined elders the seating order has been changed-as in the latest photograph of the Soviet Presidium-William Carlos Williams...
...other talk-show hosts are nowhere near the complete man that Cavett is. As to their sex appeal-Griffin is a Boy Scout leader, Frost an ulcer-ridden, sweatless advertising executive, and Carson a dissipated shoe salesman...
...Temporary Measures" rang with echoes of Shakespeare, Frost and Lowell, but spoke only of Sissman. The speaker who followed, John M. Blum '43, Fellow of Harvard College, also spoke of his life, and of the changes which have occurred in the world since his graduation. Blum spoke of the "age of heroes" which was transpiring while he was in College, of the soldiers in the Second World...
...Have you ever had a momentary temptation to murder anybody?" asked TV Inquisitor David Frost. Novelist Truman Capote, the author of In Cold Blood, boggled for a second or so, but then allowed that, yes, he had given serious thought to homicide "on at least four or five occasions." Prime object of his lethal impulse was British Critic Kenneth Tynan, whom Capote thought "despicable in every conceivable way," a judgment no doubt derived from a verbal bout over the merits of In Cold Blood. Pressed farther by the fascinated Frost, Capote explained, "Most people commit suicide because they...