Word: sylvia
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...poctry, this new sensibility and enchantment with the individual is found in the poems of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and others. The Lowell poetry is confessional poetry, I have thought, and recently I bought a record of his autobiographical poems. I think these poems told me how he came to wrest a new view of the world from his old background. And, as I remember his poetry, with the fragmentary recall we use to remember such literature, these themes come to mind: love, anger at unintended cruelty, cynicism, a restlessness in the presence of old portraits, and a cry that...
Children's Books-Ages 7 to 14 GOODBYE, DOVE SQUARE, by Janet Mc-Neill (Little, Brown; $4.50); TROUBLE IN THE JUNGLE, by John Rowe Townsend (Lippincott; $3.75); THE LIVERPOOL CATS, by Sylvia Sherry (Lippincott; $3.95). Three fine books about domestic adventures-including murder-set in the slums of English cities. The writing is clear and fast paced, without ever talking down to the reader. Americans may be stumped by an occasional term-perhaps not by "tea" for supper, or "chips" for French fries, but certainly by "scuffers" for cops...
...attend the meeting of this section on Monday, from one to three o'clock in the Brooks Parlor, Phillips Brooks House. Gary Welch Rod Rouzer Duncan McCrann Matthew Naitone W. David McCollum Thomas LaFarge Marshall Mittnick Jon Stolzenberg Judy Kauffman Brook Baker Susan Nichols Cleveland Bigelow III Amy Brodky Sylvia Lester Ted Rumsey
...Sylvia, a single girl from the Bronx on her way to old-maidhood, ostensibly wants more then anything to leave home, but needs her family too much to part ways. And she wants love and experience and life and a lover--if he'll marry her after...
Unfortunately, as Sylvia, Polly Brooks never quite got into the part. Although she sometimes seemed close, she jarred the mood everytime she spoke. One appreciates the fine enunciation of her slightly British accent, but they just don't talk like that down in the Bronx...