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...with a routine that combined the harmonica and wry, sly jokes about life back home in Indiana. ("I came from a small town. Well, I'll give you an idea of the size of it. It was between the first and second signs of a Burma Shave poem.") His gags-if not his harmonica-caught on, and before long he was a radio star; his biggest years on TV were the mid-'50s (Herb Shriner Time, 1951-52, and Two for the Money, 1952-56). Later his popularity dwindled, but he never lacked an audience for his country...
...most successful dramatic terms for any of his plays. The startling sensuo??sness of the language, which "hits the sense": the resor?? ?? the two death scenes: and, above all, the incomparable balance of the love and war plots, urge Antony and Cleopatra as the greatest lyrie heoric dramatic poem in literature...
...that the play is his greatest achievement in lyric poetry, which can't abide even minute inattention as to voice and motion. After the disintegration of The Three Sisters and The Tempest, it is moving to find a director who nobly produces this incomparable symphony of a dramatic poem with such integrity. The honor, love, death, the sorrow, rancor, and joy of laughter and release are all present and unencumbered. This is a gentle and monumental play of soldiers, and lovers, and gods, of grief and crowns and consolation, of metaphor and music which even Shakespeare never surpassed. And this...
PEOPLE HAVE, of course, been writing graffitti ???out pissing and fucking for years without giving ???damn about the use of the objective correlative ??? the integration of form and content. But Loewinsohn's poetry, in spite of its apparent nonchalance. ??? subtly crafted and conceived. In "Meat Air." the title poem of the new collection, he describes what ??? calls the "cohering center" of his work...
...most eloquent poem in the book is the ??? silent...