Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quitting. Both Hanson and Forest City have prospered. The once somnolent Main Street is bustling and not one shop is vacant. The town has a new airport, several supermarkets and no unemployment. Winnebago plans to add 600 more employees to its 1,400-man work force by next summer. The population has risen to more than...
...gives Faye Dunaway a chance for a last, torpid, tuberculous fling. TB may or may not be the unnamed mortal disease that she has. She behaves pretty much like a willful child playing hooky from the sanatorium. As her erotic partner, Marcello Mastroianni displays all the zest of a man summoned up for tax evasion. He appears to be lipreading his English, although the script seems to find the language just about as alien as Mastroianni does. The five scriptwriters who supposedly worked on the film must have spent enough time at the water-cooler to flood a camel...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE MAN OF LETTERS by John Gross. 322 pages. Macmillan...
...battle for the keys to the kingdom of the mind. Scientists, today's high priests, may regard their theories as the most important thing on earth; after all, there is the conquered moon to prove it. But once Carlyle could say, and be believed, that the man of letters is "our most important modern person." Since then, something has happened to reduce the bookman to a mere bookworm. The man of letters, according to Evelyn Waugh, belongs to an extinct species-like maiden aunts...
...winetaster theory of literature. Saintsbury, indeed, wrote with equal learning and authority on poetry and port but, alas, as if they were the same sort of thing. Pundits who teach poetry as a matter of the palate-or of professional gain-naturally detest and fear a creative man of letters like Ezra Pound, to whom poetry was a passion in which the soul was engaged in mortal questions of great consequence. Sir Edmund Gosse, for instance, a pompous Edwardian booktaster of great influence and reputation, once referred to Pound as "that preposterous American filibuster and Provençal charlatan." Gosse...