Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of Europe's major critics and a big-name-studded audience (Poet W. H. Auden, Composer Francis Poulenc et al.) braved a motorboat strike and journeyed by gondola to Venice's 450-year-old Scuola di San Rocco, one of Italy's famed Renaissance religious schools, for the fall's most eagerly awaited musical event. In hushed expectation, beneath a Tintoretto ceiling, they watched 76-year-old Igor Stravinsky, with a clawlike motion of his right hand, launch the orchestra into the premiere of his latest work. What followed was some of the finest...
...three hours he reads, reads, reads ("I can finish a book between 7 and 10") and chatters his reactions into a recording machine. His interest in books dates back to his days at N.Y.U.. where he studied under Thomas Wolfe. Wald did not forget that prolix prose poet's advice: "Gentlemen, never write anything but masterpieces; there's such a good market for them." Says Wald: "That's a pretty good idea for movies too." In 1933 Wald sold a story to Modern Screen magazine, was brought West to Warner Brothers to turn it into...
...begins the first of his vagabond journeys, part flight, part search, that never lead him to a permanent dwelling place, never free him completely from a grim, autocratic mother. Claude is small and soft-bodied, physically still a child but already, thanks to an understanding teacher, a fast-maturing poet. He stows away on a train to Paris. Drunk with wonder, he prowls this incandescent city, perches on curbstones to scribble his poems. He sleeps on pavements and swipes food from the markets. Caught and jailed, he is raped in his cell by a vagrant pederast. In shock and shame...
...part to the hilt, scrawling obscenities in front of the church. But, barricaded in his room after a night of sousing, the voyou is also a voyant-a seer. One day a summons comes from Paris; a friend has mailed samples of Claude's work to famed Poet Maurice Druard. The older writer leaves his wife, and with him Claude lives in a green haze of absinthe. Egged on by Druard. the 17-year-old boy becomes the merde-shouting outrage of the Left Bank...
...kindly culture-vulture, they would much sooner make a sexual slip than be caught uttering a cliche. Bayard works full time at being a snob and composer. His sister Cally paints, keeps hopping into beds, and wonders if true love will always pass her by. Tosh is a poet who has just been ditched by a beautiful girl who is reasonably sure that it is possible to live by bread alone...