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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) Appearing and disappearing with bewildering rapidity, the scenes that flashed across history's screen in 1958 often had the disjointed quality of a surrealist movie. Some were dramatic portents of a world to come ? missiles trailing a fiery glow as they took off for deep space, bearing with them a gadget that, when asked, sent back the recorded voice of the President of the U.S., another that reported wondrously complicated readings on radiation far beyond the atmosphere...
Winston Churchill. "When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were very often angry at each other...
...whose present consists of past. But Alex keeps calm till Geoffrey casts a luscious peeress, Lady Perdita Carne, in his medieval spectacle play Ludovic II. The soap operantics of Ask Me No More are made palatable by a knowing re-creation of the London theater, lively dialogue that is often outrageously punny ( "Anouilh, get your gun"), and a couple of cocktail party scenes laced with name-dribbling comic horror. It may not be literature, but it is a fairly painless way to decompress, for an evening or two, from the TV bends...
...father ran a greenhouse in Saginaw, Mich., and Roethke spent his childhood in the steaming, close atmosphere of growing things. Perhaps as a result, his imagery has an easy intimacy with slugs, birds, frogs, snakes, and in his deep disaffection for the world of men, he often seems happier to inhabit that simpler world. "I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another," he writes. "With bats, weasels, worms-I rejoice in the kinship...
Despite the simplicity of his syntax, Roethke is often as impenetrable as many another modern and lesser poet. If always seeming to promise more than any one poem entirely achieves, always seeming on the verge of breaking through his obscurities into the clear radiance of revelation, he still achieves more than most moderns can even hint at. His best lines have the directness of that other master of obscure simplicities, William Blake. Of hope: "My gates are all caves." Of love: "The pure admire the pure, and live alone; I love a woman with an empty face." Of the clear...