Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stunts in Drottkvaet. With his alliterative, hit-and-thump verse Auden has returned to the earliest tradition of English poetry-Anglo-Saxon-for a terseness and toughness that his own poems have lacked since the '30s. Incidental stunts include a dream song in the style of Finnegans Wake and an eight-line Drottkvaet, a complex Scandinavian verse form. But The Age of Anxiety is the best knit of Auden's longer works; his Bright Ideas, which have always had a way of stealing the show, this time wait for their cues. For the first time, too, Auden...
...cast missed cues and acted with the decisiveness of a group of tourists lost in the sewers of Paris. Nor did it help that Edis sang the role of Violetta in Italian and the rest of the cast sang in French. During the first act she tried to wake up the rest; her voice spread and her acting became exaggerated. Between acts, she took counsel with herself, decided that she never again would sing in one language with the rest of the cast singing in another ("It's too lonely"), and that "the only thing I could...
Everything Hums. The word "solunar" was coined by Knight from the Latin names for sun and moon. Scientists can scoff, but he believes-and several thousand sportsmen who follow his tables will swear-that at certain times of day all nature seems to wake up. Fish bite, ducks and pheasants abound, field dogs are alert and easy to train, and even human beings suddenly feel good for no apparent reason. The solunar tables chart the times of day when everything starts to hum. Says Knight: "We don't know what causes that activity, but it applies to all life...
...have intended them to be, their accounts are a revealing documentation of the harum-scarum behavior of the press under stress. "The whole thing," wrote Cornelius Ryan (then of the London Telegraph, now of TIME), "was a cross between a Marx Brothers movie, Hellzapoppin and an Irish wake...
...long arm of the law reached out its aquatic tentacles yesterday and damply tapped an innocent College oarsman on the shoulder. Rowing blandly past the Weeks Memorial Bridge, the Freshman credit-seeker unexpectedly found himself being swamped by the wake of a police barge...