Word: harte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAIRFIELD, CONN. Candlewood Play house. Rodgers and Hart's caddish antihero, Pal Joey, picks up a girl as easily as he orders a drink. Arlene Francis plays the rich lady who picks...
...other members of the cast--John Babington, Sheila Hart, Joan Tolentino, and Daniel Seltzer--play members of the Russian gentry, and because they do not strain for big laughs, receive respectful smiles of admiration. Ted D'Arms, a great bear of a man, is particularly good, in spirit as well as carriage...
VOYAGER: A LIFE OF HART CRANE by John Unterecker. 787 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Thus Hart Crane in "To Brooklyn Bridge" describes the noon light biting into Wall Street. As a poet, Crane sought "surrender to the sensations of urban life." Out of such sensations, he said, he hoped to forge "a mystical synthesis of America," for which (he told his perplexed patron, Otto Kahn) "one might take the Sistine Chapel as an analogy...
...tolerant audience. This is especially true among poets sharing his faith in the word as "object." It is also true among academic critics like Columbia's John Unterecker, whose Voyager is the second serious study of Crane's life to appear since Philip Horton's adventurous Hart Crane: The Life of an American Poet...