Word: prufrocks
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...domestic problems of the Eliots. But Ackroyd suggests that in many ways Vivien was a good wife, supporting her husband in his dark moods and offering solicited judgments on his manuscripts. Eliot's method of divorcing her shimmers with the indecisiveness of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: he went off for a stint of teaching in the U.S., told his lawyers to handle matters in his absence and hid from her when he returned to England. She died in a mental institution...
...colored lights flash and wink in bright display, the scene comes to resemble a glitzy junk yard Christmas. At the play's climactic moment, when a glittering floating cloud carries an aging cat away into the sky to be reborn, the illusion erodes into little more than J. Alfred Prufrock meets Star Wars...
...vision was of the nebbish as a nebbish. In the second, the mauve and chartreuse period, it was the nebbish as an artist. Play it Again Sam is probably his best effort of the bright red period. In this latter day Casablanca scenario, Allen is a movie-going Prufrock who longs to be Bogie. Diane Keaton plays her patented delectable goof role, and cuts an unlikely Ingrid Bergman figure. You must love a movie with lines like...
...Eliot, The Love Song ofJ. Alfred Prufrock...
...Wohl's history embraces only itself. Wohl waits until the last chapter to breeze quickly over such vital pre-war factors as growing industrialization and urbanization. There is not even a discussion of the intellectuals who contemplated the human crises this modern world caused--no mention of J. Alfred Prufrock and the isolation and loneliness that Eliot detailed...