Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult document in more ways than one. The first draft was written by Archibald MacLeish, the final one by Chairman Robert Maynard Hutchins and Robert D. Leigh (director of the Commission staff). In between, every line was "hammered out in conference and correspondence." What survived was, presumably, the most that all 13 could agree...
...Harrison as the idealistic journalist can deliver a speech on human rights or a quick Noel Coward-ish line with equal skill. Vivien Leigh lends quiet beauty, while Creel Parker as her father is able to arouse the admiration as well as the ire of the audience. Well buttered with wit, "Storm in a Teacup" at the same time holds political significance for an America that still remembers Huey Long...
Some four years later, the Confederacy and most of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry were dead. But young Captain Blackford survived. He lived on long enough to edit, with his wife Susan Leigh Blackford, the letters they had exchanged during the war. Privately printed in two volumes in 1894, they are now abridged by Grandson Charles Minor Blackford...
...thinks gigantically," said Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt. "If thought were light, and our planet visible by it, and space were time, the next ages would see us coming by a little ray, made up of such minds." A few days later their friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, aged 29, vanished with his fated little sailboat into a sultry Mediterranean storm. The next ages have been only fitfully aware of Shelley as a gigantic thinker. And Blunden's biography scarcely supports that description; but it shows the poetry maturing with the man: eloquent, fervorous, audacious, imaginative...
Child of Poetry. After Harriet's death, Shelley devoted himself to his poetry in Hampstead, in Leigh Hunt's cottage, where young Keats was a fellow visitor, and in Geneva, where the glamorous Lord Byron was a neighbor. The Napoleonic Wars were over; the long golden age of travel on the Continent had begun. Shelley's household abroad included not only Mary, whom he married, but her sister, Claire Claremont, one of Byron's cast-off mistresses. His scandalous behavior shocked London, and he never returned to the city after 1818, later writing stanzas beginning "Hell...