Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Luis ("El Vate") Muñoz Marin, 48, broody-eyed President of Puerto Rico's Senate, founder and guiding spirit of the Popular Democratic Party, political hero of the poverty-stricken jibaros (hill people); by Muna Lee, 51, Mississippi-born poetess after 27 years of marriage, two children; in San Juan...
Married. Edith Kingdon Gould, 25, socialite, linguist (five), ex-child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), former lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, great granddaughter of the late railroad tycoon Jay Gould, and daughter of the late financier Kingdon Gould; and Guy Martin, 34, wartime Navy lieutenant; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
James Norman Hall, Tahiti-dwelling author (with Charles Nordhoff) of the Bounty series, discomfited many a book critic with a wicked confession: Fern Gravel, a child poetess whose volume, Oh, Millersville!, made a merry little noise in literary circles six years ago, existed only in Hall's brain. Deadpanned Hall in the Atlantic: Fern had come to him in a dream, and dictated such deathless verse...
Good, Noble, Occasionally Mistaken. Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was the Poetess-Pontifex. She once told Author Greenslet, "Ferris, you are a dear good boy, but you don't know a thing about biography, not a God damned Thing.'" Author Greenslet knows enough, at any rate, to have written a highly readable series of biographical sketches. In tone they are semi-official and rather adoring; apparently Lowells are rarely inspired by anything less than noble impulses and a passion for good works, though now & then they may make "mistakes." But at that, they are an interesting lot. Among them...
...Leningrad, ruled by Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, was waging an esthetic purge. Two outstanding literary figures, Poetess Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko (whom many Russians consider their best short story writer since Chekhov), were barred from all Soviet publications for "decadence" and "rotten lack of ideology." The literary magazine Leningrad was suspended and Zvezda condemned for ignoring "the vital foundation of the Soviet system, its political policy" and "spreading a spirit of obsequiousness to the contemporary bourgeois culture of the West." With obsequious haste, the Leningrad writers' union voted to abandon "the theory of pure art" and, instead, "train...