Word: maline
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil, shepherds met in bucolic settings and conversed in polished verses. In Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a department store buyer; Emble, a good-looking young naval officer. It is All Souls' Night...
Souls in Wartime. News bulletins on the radio remind them that the war is going on as they drink. Malin remembers a bombing mission...
When the bar closes, Rosetta invites the three men to her apartment for sandwiches and a nightcap. She and Emble are attracted to each other, and all four, in their alcoholic glow, feel the exciting promise of this union. But when Rosetta returns after seeing Quant and Malin to the door, she finds Emble passed out cold on her bed. The promise of love was an illusion. The poem ends, as it began, in the loneliness and frustration of all four characters, for Auden is preaching a revulsion from all temporal goods, including human love; the only thing to hold...
Died. General Malin Craig, 69, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1935-39) preceding General George C. Marshall, ex-commandant of the Army War College, onetime West Point star halfback, wartime head of the Secretary of War's personnel board; of a heart ailment; in Washington...
...Army & Navy's new five-star rank has raised the command ceiling so high that there is more room than ever before in the four-star chamber just below it. Last week the President nominated nine more men to join four-star generals Malin Craig and Joseph Stilwell. The nine...