Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. Using the techniques of psychological biography, the author draws a fascinating, sympathetic, and at times ironic, portrait of the 19th century English genius who excelled as a painter, poet, architect and interior designer...
...Eugene McCarthy, re-examining his image after seven weeks of campaigning for the presidency as a peace candidate, concluded that he came across more as a poet than an electable politician. Accordingly, on a swing through California last week, the Minnesota Democrat broke away from his somewhat aseptic form to broaden his attack on the Johnson Administration. Unimpressed, Stanford University's pro-McCarthy newspaper welcomed his campus visit with the disenchanted demand: "Does Eugene McCarthy want to make righteous speeches or does he want to end the Viet Nam war?" Un less Senator McCarthy's "passion gap" could...
...this case, figurative rather than literal. It is Holy Week, and packed into a Volkswagen en route from Mexico City to Veracruz are Franz, a Sudeten German who once worked as an architect in a Nazi concentration camp; Isabel, his thrill-a-minute cutie; Javier, a middle-aged dud poet; and Elizabeth, his love-starved (as distinguished from sex-starved) wife. Though each is in search of an intensely personal salvation, each represents a familiar 20th century type. Franz seeks redemption for having played a role in the horror story of the century; Isabel tries to fill the void with...
...wrote an unfavorable Commentary review of The Adventures of Angle March, the 1953 novel by Family Favorite Saul Bellow. According to Podhoretz, Bellow's friends were apparently persuaded that the review was part of a subtle plot to discredit him. Three years later, a well-known American poet (the reader is never told who) accosted the young critic at a party and drunkenly threatened: "We'll get you for that review if it takes ten years." The book is everywhere littered with the hairs of such neighborhood cat fights, most of them long forgotten by everyone...
...reputations and measure the gains and losses. By implication, he suggests that other members did the same. "Did so-and-so have dinner at Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment last night? Up five points. Was so-and-so not invited by the Lowells to meet the latest visiting Russian poet? Down one-eighth. Did so-and-so's book get nominated for the National Book Award? Up two and five-eighths. Did Partisan Review neglect to ask so-and-so to participate in a symposium? Down...