Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William R. Fraser of the Quaker Team of the U.N.; Vernon Nash, author and lecturer active in the world government movement; H. Donald Williams, New England Executive Director of United World Federalists; and Gordon D. Hall, author, will address the Conference...
Which means that in The Private Dining Room, Nash does his utmost to portray life with the mingled tolerance and grouchiness that follow an obligatory loosening of the belt. He finds for example, that there is very little satisfaction in talking with the younger generation...
...PRIVATE DINING ROOM (169 pp.)-Ogden Nash-Litfle, Brown ($3). There have been persistent reports that Ogden Nash, long aged 30, had decided to enter his 50s and assume a middle-aged spread. The rumors are now confirmed by Poet Nash (born 1902) himself. Poem after poem in this new collection indicates a deliberate relapse into maturity; a new horizon shows both in waist and vision, along with such signal quirks as a grumpy dislike for opinionated young men and a difficulty in reading the phone book without glasses. There is even a blunt admission that when a man reaches...
What middle-age has not withered is Poet Nash's determination to do his work with craftmanship...
Under the elderly slouch, the authentic Nash stance is still evident. It is that of a poet who has provoked so many chuckles by stating good sense in metrical nonsense that many readers have never paused to appraise the discipline, economy and pungency of the Nash poem at its best. One of the best in this collection is The Visit. Here, in two dozen lines, is the whole armor of Ogden Nash-the sardonic side glance, the aptly distorted word, the poised cold shoulder, the burial of victims in clichés of their own choosing...