Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Believe It or Not'] Ripley is a Bachelor" was Bachelor's first featured interview. (Ripley's reason: too busy.) Bachelor-of-the-Theatre was Alexander Kirkland, who interviewed himself. A portfolio of "Bachelors-of-the-Arts" included Photographers George Platt Lynes and Hal Phyfe, Poet-Artist Jean Cocteau, Cinemactor Robert Taylor. Julius ("Pete") Street Jr. wrote about Princeton's Triangle Club show under the pseudonym of Peter Street. An article on "The Insolence of American Women" was contributed by a Baron Giorgio Sudani, organizer and president of the Noblemen's Club of New York...
Lenin's wife, Krupskaya, was an "ex-tremely plain woman, really ugly," who prompted Max Eastman to say: "Lenin would probably get well if he had a pretty girl!" In Paris, Poet McKay joined the expatriate throngs, caught a hacking cough by posing in the nude, was given a check to keep him three months in southern France by John Reed's widow, Louise Bryant. He gave up a job in Rex Ingram's Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay...
...preface, Maurice Buxton Forman thought their evidence should at last lay the legend of Fanny Brawne's heartlessness, establish her as the worthy sweetheart of a great poet. Lay readers could not see that, short of reading between the lines with a very sympathetic eye, the letters changed matters much one way or the other...
...that comes in my way spoiling my taste and understanding. . . ."-A passage on Byron is almost a giveaway: "Don't you or do you admire Don Juan? perhaps you like the serious parts best but I have been credibly informed that Lord B. is not really a great poet, have taken a sort of dislike to him when serious and only adore him for his wit and humour. I am by no means a great poetry reader. . . ." Later it comes out that "as my dear Keats did not admire Lord Byron's poetry as many people...
FORWARD FROM LIBERALISM-Stephen Spender-Random House ($2). Depersonalized testament of much-touted Poet Spender's "personal" approach to communism-with a small "c" to indicate his political celibacy...