Word: housman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Housman's famous "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries...
...that in 18th century Germany in imitation of Goethe's sick but romantic hero, Werther. Marilyn Monroe felt that she had good cause to hate the world, and may well have unconsciously fantasied many suicides do-that in killing herself she was destroying it, as in A. E. Housman's poem...
...Daddy and calls him a stupid old man, said Novelist (The Once and Future King) T. H. White, 57. And that, he added, is just what has happened to T. S. Eliot, 75. Once the great guru of contemporary poets, Eliot has joined the "poets unfashionable" like A. E. Housman and Rupert Brooke who "condescend to rhyme and scan and take care," White told a Library of Congress audience. After a decent interval, he will be rediscovered, but for the nonce, said T.H. of T.S., "he is out-due for the chop. Eliot is no longer cool...
...Song II is from A. E. Housman's When the Bells Justle: When the bells justle in the tower The hollow night amid Then on my tongue the taste is sour Of all I ever...
...when she played the wrinkled, lace-capped queen in NBC's Victoria Regina, Julie Harris, 36, melted in tears when the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded her an Emmy as best actress of the year. Two other figurines went to the 90-minute adaptation of Laurence Housman's 1935 play: for best show of the year and best supporting actress. Pamela Brown...