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Born three decades ago in Boston, Ciardi spent his undergraduate years in Bates and Tufts, and then moved out to Michigan for his M. A. in English. There, in 1939, "I suddenly found myself very rich" when "Homeward to America," a book of verse, won the annual Hopwood prize and was accepted for publication...
...pattern. Johnny, the hero, is 21, shy, inexperienced, friendly, the sort of person to whom good-natured drunks confide their life histories, because he is too reticent to relate his own, too sympathetic to shut them up, and too polite to razz them. Like Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel! and like a thousand other intellectuals in American fiction, he thinks in a scrambled poetic prose-The memory of her face had the time of sunlight upon...
Thunderbolt Language. His first novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, were overwhelming performances: in the face of their mass and virtuosity, what was the use of rebelling against his frequent abuse of the language that he handled as if he were God hurling thunderbolts...
...heroes of those awful hours in the plane were nine U.S. merchant seamen, homeward bound after delivering a tanker to an English buyer. They nonchalantly ate sardines and crackers, reassured the passengers and tied bibs made of torn sheets around the necks of retching men & women...
...Southampton, England, camera-shy Greta Garbo, homeward bound, failed to shy fast enough, got caught again in that same wonderful old hat (see cut). But she arrived back in Manhattan at the top of her form: after two months of travel & observation in churning Europe, she had nothing...