Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times: "The only trouble with our intellectual habit of likening our times to the . . . decadent Roman Empire and the challenge of the barbarians is that in the earlier case there was a vital, revolutionary new leaven at work . . . Whether Christianity can once again perform that function remains to be seen. To do so would require a pretty radical rebirth of Christian thought, of which I wish I could see more signs. Perhaps we may find such a rebirth in the remembrance of the Birth, that timeless fact about God which did once turn the world upside down. But we shall...
...what we are doing? The other angel has a wristwatch; I don't know why, but he has it. Why is he scratching his leg? Because there are so many mosquitoes on earth. What is the faun doing? He is watching the angel. He has never seen an angel either...
...practically everybody, including himself, Thomas Stearns Eliot seems in love with love and life. The poet who was old at 23, when he wrote Prufrock, is getting young in his old age. Last year the erstwhile "aged eagle" talked about taking dancing lessons, and now he can be seen dining out and piloting his 31-year-old wife Valerie across dance floors. "His brow so grim and his mouth so prim" radiate such dimpled benevolence that one crusty old friend likens the new Eliot to "an enormous, overstuffed Angora...
...Grishkin with her famous "promise of pneumatic bliss." Says a hard-boiled pal: "He's got this mad thing about love. The way he gazes with sheep's eyes at his wife you'd never guess they'd been married nearly two years and seen each other every day before that for seven." Valerie...
...town kid who has made good is full of the knowledge that you can't go home again. But this time it is the boy who belonged to the town's upper crust and the girl who lived on the dreary lower-lower level. Tom had first seen Rhoda coming from a typing class, and after that there was really no other woman for him, except on the rebound. He had just sold his first play, and in the happy Fitzgerald days he showed Rhoda a world she could not even imagine. But no matter how much...