Word: matter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dissatisfaction over her husband's activities as her private impresario. "I am my own boss now." said she, insisting that she would not share another cent she makes with Meneghini. As for Onassis, it wasn't passion, just money, said Callas. "My relations with him involve business matters." One possible Onassis-backed "business matter": a contract to play the lead in a film version of Novelist Hans Habe's serialized German potboiler, Die Primadonna...
...touched in the head. But on Moss Hart's stage she emerges as a kind of Bronx Blanche DuBois, a woman defying her mean surroundings by living in a world of her own with smelling salts and trailing dresses and a stubborn refusal to go to work "no matter how needy the rest of the family might be. She was "a touching combination of the sane and the ludicrous along with some secret splendor within herself." Come debt or hunger, she would go to the theater, taking her nephew with her, and when there wasn't even...
That is one way to reach Marianne Moore. She lives there between Lafayette and De Kalb still, as she has for 30 years, and from those unlikely surroundings have come some of the best U.S. poetry written during that time. Reaching the heart of her poetry itself is another matter. Her poetry is practical and fresh, delicate and forthright, intensely imaginative and keenly observant. To try to reach it, the Collected Poems are the best road. Her new book, so slender that it can be read in an hour, is a simple, narrow, carefree path that proves in a whimsical...
...matter more, he lines a homer to the signboard...
...Thousand Things, it is not the facts of life that matter so much in Yesterday as the fact of life. Author Dermout can tell much of what needs to be told about Javanese servants by catching them in moments of tenderness or bitterness when their blank-faced defenses are down. Best of all, she can describe a life no longer possible without resorting to plantation tears. Yesterday is offered as a bit of fiction. It does not matter how it is read, as imagination or autobiography; the best thing about this book is the fact that the reader is almost...