Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nash's fluttery doggerel is as American as a Mississippi drawl and as tempting to imitate. Last week reviewers were tempted to another outburst of meterless, rhyme-twisting verse by the appearance of Nash's fifth book of poems, The Primrose Path. In that outburst they were led by Critic John Chamberlain of the New York Times, who turned out a whole re-view in Nashiana. Excerpts...
...should be interested in the home, and oppressed with the whiteness and quiet of the ampitheatre, of the Unknown Soldier, farther up the road. If you journey around to the front and to the tomb, a strange feeling will come over you that makes you want to block the path of the guarding soldier in order to see whether he will walk around you or pass unseen right through your body...
With Road of Ages Author Nathan hits a wholly serious, grave note even though he is still technically engaged in writing fantasy. The book's title refers to the path to exile which the Jew has trod in many ages, from the time Edward I drove him out of England down to the latest edict of Realmleader Hitler. When Mr. Nathan picks up the thread of this millennial-long Diaspora, every country on the face of the earth, with the single exception of Mongolia, has ordered the Jews into banishment. Readers first meet the race in Road of Ages...
...Joplin, Mo. last week a toothless old man quavered to interviewers: "I'd like to be left out of all this. . . . They chose their path years ago, and I chose mine...
...They" were old George Barker's divorced wife and his four sons. He was sick, poor, alone but his path had been honest. Their path had led two to prison, three to violent Death...