Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The fun and games that lurk beneath even the bleak surface of Depression and War are replayed in a revue of the lesser-known tunes in the Porter portfolio...
...COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories, four of them new, by the author of Ship of Fools. Though marred by an oppressive intellectuality, these stories confirm that Author Porter is a master stylist...
Like Kennedy, Lindsay is an avid yachtsman, an ex-Navy officer, a sometime Sunday touch-football player, a reader of Ian Fleming novels, the father of a son named John. Lindsay, too, is married to a handsome woman who attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn., and Vassar. Mary Lindsay, 37, has little else in common with Jackie Kennedy. Mother of four (Katherine, 14; Margaret, 11; Anne, 9; John Jr., 5), "Mare"-as John calls her-is more gregarious and much more at home in the jostle of politics than Jackie...
Lost Roots. Trusting that point perhaps too uncritically, Author Porter in her late 40s rashly abandoned her emotional roots and hurled her energies into a grandiose allegory intended to explain "the majestic and terrible failure of the life of man in the western world." What she achieved, and it cost her 20 years to achieve it, is embodied in Ship of Fools-a book that is magnificently ingenious but coldly calculated, loveless and finally unbelievable. It is Katherine Anne Porter's tragedy that at the climax of her creative life, she shunted herself onto a sidetrack and went careering...
...magnitude of the tragedy will be painfully apparent to the reader of this collection of stories. Author Porter has superb natural gifts. She has irony, she has imagery, she has language. "Her style," wrote Glenway Wescott, "is perfection. It just covers its subject matter as if it were green grass growing on a lawn." Above all, she can think-and therein lies her principal problem. She sees her characters less as people who must live than as problems to be solved. There is too little warmth and softness in her art. But hardness endures, and six or eight...