Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The hottest bestseller of 1949 runs to less than 1,000 words and sells for an even dollar. White Collar Zoo is a collection of 73 brightly captioned pictures illustrating a well-known truth: that the posturings and expressions of any group of human beings and those of an animal...
Stacked beside it last week was Author Barnes's Home Sweet Zoo , a hasty effort to cash in on a good thing with more of the same. Just as obvious and just as funny as White Collar, Home Sweet Zoo has an even larger potential audience: the husbands and...
Poet-Critic Lloyd Frankenberg started with a good idea. He would write a plain-spoken book to "provide a bridge to modern poetry for readers . . . brought up on prose." And since "poetry is an art of the ear's discrimination," he would persuade a record company to issue an...
Since Frankenberg doesn't mean Pleasure Dome to be profound literary criticism, and since it isn't, it can be judged by only one standard: Does it really help the ordinary intelligent reader-the kind who might tackle a Faulkner novel but shies away from an Eliot poem...
Moods & Mechanics. Holding the reader firmly but not condescendingly by the hand, Frankenberg plunges directly into the work of the modern poets. In an illuminating essay on T. S. Eliot he anticipates and answers many of the questions readers are likely to ask about Eliot's poetry. He shows...