Word: macaulay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Page 143 DAISY AND DAPHNE-Rose Macaulay-Boni & Liveright...
...P.ose Macaulay's perennial concern for human snobbishness, and consequent shams, takes new form in this entertaining tragedy, punctuated as it is with slapstick. No innovation, it is a psychological study of dual, or rather multiple personality. It is done with wit, intelligence, and according to Freud...
...Author Macaulay, brought up in Italy, by the sea, now lives and writes in London. Somewhat annoyed that her publishers required further publicity matter than her creditable list of novels (Potterism, Told By An Idiot, Orphan Island) she answered in regard to hobbies: "I don't keep rabbits or collect stamps in these days...
...BRONZE TREASURY-Edited by Harry Kemp-Macaulay ($3). Thomas Tusser, Soame Jenyns, Richard Yago, Theophile Marzials, Selwyn Image- even the name of the 78 minor poets in this anthology of the obscure, like their lives and their verses, are strange, flimsy and exciting. Author Kemp is sensitive to the fine moments when, for each, mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have...
Patience. Gusto and gay abandon are the birthright of the rollicking operettas of W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Seymour Sullivan. And while Vivian Hart as the saucy dairy maid, James Watts as the lavender Bunthorne and Joseph Macaulay as the poet Archibald, carol sweetly, they play with more diffidence than zest. A chorus even less frolicsome than the principals was likened by one reviewer to "a daisy chain of serious Smith or Bryn Mawr girls." The proceedings are applauded in genteel style by players in two stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical...