Word: millay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creative output was meager by most standards: she published only seven trim collections of poetry and short stories. "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay," she said, "unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damned good." In fact, her verse was carefully shod, precise, often dazzling. It was shot through with self-pity and brittle melancholy. Her frequent approach was to make herself the fall girl in the battle of the sexes, and her favorite method was the abrupt change of pace. She might gush sentimentally and then suddenly clamp on her cynic...
Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?") I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
Blonde-less Bond. By last week, still intact physically-if not emotionally-were two more of the film's featured players, TV Comic (Treasure Hunt) Jan Murray and blonde Starlet Diana Millay. Diana is cast as a wilderness nurse, for there is no Jane nor love interest in Producer Weintraub's 1960s concept of the Edgar Rice Burroughs hero. "They like to think of their new Tarzan as 'the James Bond of the Jungle,'" she complains, "but Bond would have known what to do with a blonde on a moonlit night on a tropical river. Tarzan...
...Never is Charlie Brown called Charlie! It's like writing Amerigo when you mean Amerigo Vespucci, like saying Edna for Edna St. Vincent Millay. It's like saying Ponce or Genghis or Pontius. Good grief...
...from Philistia to Bohemia. Both succeeded, Louis becoming an anthologist, poet, critic, and a man of many marriages-five in all, two of them to Jean. She plunged into music, poetry and the keeping of a salon, where she paraded such lions as Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound and Siegfried Sassoon...