Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews. A second absorbing volume produced by artful questioners who extract provocative ideas on art and life from Boris Pasternak, Ezra Pound, Katherine Anne Porter and other creators...
...will exceed 6% in the second half. Partly because a 2% unemployment rate has steadied labor costs and export prices, Britain's exports in the first half rose 6% over the same period in 1962, its balance-of-payments surplus hit a four-year high, and the pound sterling strengthened...
Particular Father. Readers baffled by the complexities of such poems as the Cantos and The Waste Land may find consolation in the fact that the authors are as unhappy as their audience. To Ezra Pound obscurity is not so much in "the language but in the other person's not being able to make out why you are saying a thing." Robert Frost recalls his own difficulty in understanding Philosopher George Santayana: "I found years afterward somewhere in his words that all was illusion, of two kinds, true and false." Owlishly, Frost goes on: "And I decided false illusion...
...cowards? Haven't we been on the edge of destruction time and again through war, disease, pestilence, famine? What are we threatened with by the exaggerated use of obscenity? Where's the danger?" Accused of disloyalty to the U.S. because of his wartime broadcasts from Italy, Ezra Pound says broodingly, "T thought I was fighting for a constitutional point. I mean to say, T may have been completely nuts, but I certainly felt that it wasn't committing treason." Robert Frost, amused at being charged with conservatism, defines U.S. political parties in terms of sex: "The father...
Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law and an alumnus of George Washington University, was honored by his alma mater with the degree of Doctor of Social Science. With his wife, Eleanor Touroff Glueck, he has studied the determination of factors which aid in the prediction and prevention of juvenile delinquency...