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Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis on Sept. 26, 1888. He died in London on Jan. 4, 1965. These dates and places bracket a life but are swamped by its reverberations. For Eliot, in transit, not only wrote The Waste Land, the single most influential poem in English of the 20th century. He also produced a body of work -- poetry, criticism, plays -- that permanently rearranged the cultural landscapes of his native and adopted lands...
...belated recognition of Eliot's intimate presence within his poetry has spurred some controversy. Two of his early poems, Gerontion and Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar, contain traces of anti-Semitism. Last month in London, an outcry by several prominent people questioned why Jews should be expected to cooperate in the commemorative raising of funds for the London Library, one of Eliot's favorite projects during his later years...
...Queens, N. Y., and under London' s Waterloo Bridge, two new museums + chronicle the triumphs and trivia of movies...
...square name is Francis Morgan Thompson. "Daley" is a corruption of Ayodele, an African endearment bestowed by his Nigerian father and mispronounced by his Scottish mother. It means "joy enters the house." "That was the only thing," in Thompson's bittersweet estimation, "that they got absolutely right." His London childhood was something out of Thackeray, not Dickens, though classic shadows like boarding schools were involved. "Since forever, I always thought I was going to be the best in the world at something. My school friends used to laugh at me, but I kept searching for the thing that would express...
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