Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The real breadwinner, of course, is his alter ego, Nicholas Blake, creator of Nigel Strangeways and other shrewd detective heroes, who was himself created in 1935 to finance a repaired roof over the Day-Lewis home at Cheltenham. Day-Lewis has kept increasingly comfortable ones overhead ever since, including the...
Elegiac Worst. With the onset of World War II, "the smouldering heart, the seamless brow" of the youthful Day-Lewis began a slow, often painful search for order-a quest that some critics fear may have put his "less Dionysiac" verse at the Establishment's doorstep. Yet the best...
Unfortunately, elegiac verse, seemingly a ceremonial necessity for poets laureate, does not seem to be his forte. His unofficial effort on the death of Winston Churchill laments that "the route was difficult, and the peak remote" for "the young fox-haired firebrand of debate." That verse won the Times Literary...
Last week Prime Minister Harold Wilson filed suit against an American-owned newspaper that is distributed but not published in Britain-the International Herald Tribune, edited and printed in Paris. The offending column, written by Flora Lewis, appeared the same day as an unrelated wire service story reporting that Wilson...
Deserved Contempt. The Lewis column over which Wilson sued did, in fact, take a lot of liberties. It appeared under a headline reading THE OTHER WOMAN IN THE LIFE OF HAROLD WILSON, with a picture of Wilson, Mrs. Wilson and his personal political secretary, Mrs. Marcia Williams. Miss Lewis wrote...