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...P.V.D.E. men overheard and hustled the sickly lad to court. The trial was speedy, the sentence light by Lisbon standards: 25 days in jail and 100 escudos ($4) fine. But João's mother sobbed and bystanders growled as the boy collapsed on seeing Portuguese justice open a prison cell instead of a hospital ward. The Portuguese press rarely murmurs against the order Salazar has maintained for 14 years, but last week the Lisbon Diario de Lisboa reported João's case with obvious sympathy...
Last week, a few doors down Shaftesbury Avenue from While the Sun Shines, London playgoers were seeing a new Rattigan offering-and wondering what had come over the lightfoot lad of British show business. His new Winslow Boy was bright enough, but it had insides...
When I was a lad I served a term...
...Shropshire Lad-with notes and a semicentennial bibliography by Carl J. Weber; $3; Colby College Library, Waterville...
...many of his poems fail somewhere to embarrass mature readers for the poet's sake. Critic Cyril Connolly has pointed out that in 63 poems Housman uses the word lad-a dubious word even in England-no less than 67 times. Oxford's Professor H. W. Garrod has objected to the "false-pastoral" quality of many of the poems, the frequent excessiveness of their emotions and situations. Poet Conrad Aiken, provoked by the overenthusiasm of an undergraduate, once described Housman as "a male Ella Wheeler Wilcox."† Housman himself appreciated the parody of himself (by Hugh Kingsmill) which...