Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thompson Trophy Race is as famous among aviators as the Indianapolis Memorial Day race is to daredevils of the track. Sponsor of the race is Cleveland's Thompson Products Co., now the biggest maker of jet engine components before that, the valve producer of the world...
...Francis Thompson could be the author of one of the few unmistakably great odes in the English language, The Hound of Heaven, in which Thompson himself is the pursued and Christ the pursuer, in which the life-worn fugitive turns in ineffective flight to friendship, children, nature before he surrenders to the Hound of Heaven...
...Degree of Agony. Unlike most Englishmen, Francis Thompson had not the least desire to travel, and never so much as crossed the Channel. If he ever felt sexual desire, it was lost in his belief that "all human love ... is a symbol of divine love," and should be treated accordingly. Not all the women he met understood this -particularly the mothers of unmarried daughters. Author Meynell prints the unconsciously funny letter of one anxious mother who feared that her daughter might succumb to Poet Thompson. "It is not in her nature to love you; but I see no reason...
...When Thompson died at 48 (in 1907, of tuberculosis), his sole belongings were "a few old pipes and old pens lying in a tin lid" and a nondescript collection of clippings from the Daily Mail (e.g., "Mikado Airs on Japanese Warship-Amusing Scenes"; "The Milk Peril, What Hinders Reform"). But by then, thanks in good part to Editor Meynell (who lived on until 1948), he stood second only to William Butler Yeats as the foremost lyricist...
...hard not to see Thompson's life as a romantic symbol of poetic suffering and despair, but he himself believed that poets suffer less than other men. "The delicate nature," he wrote, "stops at a certain degree of agony, as the delicate piano at a certain strength of touch...