Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much more satisfactory than the formal irony of the wall itself, are the individual insights given throughout the book in the ironic or sarcastic passages. Here is a bureaucrat-turned underground-fighter, who has just been captured by the Germans out on the rubble heap that was the ghetto, being questioned...
...Patched Mirror. The Waste Land is easier on the ear than on the mind. It is like a kaleidoscopic mirror held up to the age-a patched mirror which at first seems to reflect only a heap of broken images, but which, to a longer view, blends them into a single bizarre picture, at once as strange and as familiar as one's own face (or one's own city) seen in a recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate...
...great many people are pleased with "My Foolish Heart." Samuel Goldwyn, the producer, is happy: despite adverse reviews, this, his latest product, is making a heap of money. The Academy Award nominating board is happy: the movie's heroine, Susan Hayward, has been nominated for the best actress of the year. The manager of the Astor Theater is happy: not only is his theater well-filled even on afternoons, but his floor is so well-washed with tears that it must need only a dry mop at the end of the day. And, of course, the audience this film...