Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company bank accounts, declared that another $209,671 worth had "never been used," that neither he nor Mildred Paperman could explain what had happened to an additional $89,000 worth of checks drawn in the 1940s. The bank, said Miss Paperman blandly, has "made mistakes in the past, and these can be an error...
...there are lots of parodies. (Satire used to seek its own form.) There is a parody on Jack Kerouac--one of the few prose works written in the past two years worse than Kerouac's own. And an allegory for modern children. And a lamentation on income taxes in the form of a Wasteland lampoon (shattering and scattering the newly mended dissociation with a series of rhyming couplets...
Gilbert and Sullivan, the Statue of Liberty, and James Whitcomb Riley also emerge among the bloodied victims of Monocle's shillelagh subtlety. Charles J. Prentiss's "Remembrance of Past Things," some peppered nostalgia for the soap-box liberal (in poetic form), is the only passable selection in the current issue's seventeen attempts...
After a morning of classes, the student again walks the beaten path, past Wigglesworth, past Lamont (where the industrious smile through the windows), back to the Union...
...best excuse for retelling a myth is to be unfaithful to it. When Joyce reworked the Odyssey, turning Ulysses into the Jew Leopold Bloom and the wine-dark sea into Dublin, the structure came from the past but the sense of it was all in the present-which is the essence of parable. To re-create the past as past is merely archaeology or entertainment, or both. Author Mary (The Last of the Wine) Renault's The King Must Die (a midsummer Book-of-the-Month Club choice) is both, but she is a better literary archaeologist than...