Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Herbert Pulitzer, 61, third and only surviving son of the late great Editor Joseph Pulitzer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World), onetime publisher of the New York World (in its final illness, 1930-31); of uremic poisoning; in Paris...
...most disliked in the British . . ." It proved to be the work of the London Daily Mirror's waspish Columnist Cassandra (William Connor), who could hardly wait to return from his vacation to see what the postman had brought. One of the papers carrying his ad, the Washington Post and Times Herald, published its own reply: "The British are archaic. They cling to worn-out practices. They profess to see virtue in . . . training for public service, in honest elections . . . in decent manners, in regard for learning...
...post-World War II generation-beat or beatific-has not found symbolic spokesmen with anywhere near the talents of Fitzgerald, Hemingway or Nathanael West. In this novel, talented Author Kerouac, 35, does not join that literary league, either, but at least he suggests that his generation is not silent. With his barbaric yawp of a book. Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean...
...theology, place and power, and its spiritual ferment). To this was added a fantastic, ramshackle bureaucracy with bewhiskered officials dedicated to the ledgers of obscurantism. Gogol's own parents typified that society. His mother was a pious, eccentric ninny; his father a sometime bureaucrat in the chaotic Russian post office as well as the owner of 3,000 acres, 384 serfs and a vodka distillery...
...reality, to bring us to a condition of serenity, stillness, and reconciliation; and then leave us, as Virgil left Dante, to proceed toward a region where that guide can avail us no farther." Insofar as Eliot has always derived his theories from his practice, this is his ex post facto description of the Four Quartets, a poetic bridge between the realms of the material and the spiritual...