Word: ivor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poets Archibald MacLeish, Richard Eberhart, and Richard Wilbur will read form their own works, while Thomas verse will be read by Ivor A. Richards, University Professor. Poetess Marianne Moore may also read...
...some weeks a kindred argument has been raging in the pages of Britain's London Observer. "Great men," wrote Critic Ivor Brown, firing a blanket salvo at all Joycean obscurantists, "are not so silly as to make a practice of wasting their words." Philip Toynbee, the historian's son, rushed to the defense of obscurantism with some obscuration of his own. "To ask why James Joyce didn't write Ulysses less obscurely is a non-question," he declaimed. "It is equivalent to asking why a tree isn't a rock or why a motorcar...
...Ivor turned to song writing in his teens and in 1914, when he was only 21, wrote out one that made him both rich and famous: Keep the Home Fires Burning. It caught the ear of the marching men, and they sang it into history as one of the most popular songs of all time-to the distinct discomfiture of Novello's regular publisher, who rejected...
...Ivor was a national idol overnight. His delicately handsome profile, photographed in a thousand lights, became somehow confused in the public mind with a patriotic poster, and to lonely wives and mothers he became a romantic surrogate for the men away at war. The movies invited him into their realms of gold and in he went...
...Call of the Blood, when it was shown in 1920, puffed Ivor into a fullblown matinee craze, and The Rat, a melodrama which Ivor wrote, produced and starred in, made him a leading figure on the stage as well. Glamorous Night, the first Novello musical (in which he also starred), was a huge hit. The Dancing Years, his fourth musical, ran for ten years. Ivor composed seven musicals before he was through, all beautifully decorated and loaded with the brisk tunes and languid ballads that Britons had learned to expect...