Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter, which was released in the wake of a series of incidents involving inebriated New England college students, suggested prominent display of placards calling attention to the Massachusetts statute prohibiting the sale of liquor to those under 21. It further asked that students whose age is in doubt be made to register their names and addresses...
Seeds of Contemplation (New Directions; $3) is already riding to a whacking success in the high-altitude wake of an earlier book, The Seven Storey Mountain (TIME, Oct. 11), by the same young Trappist monk. Both books are the work of 34-year-old Thomas Merton, who has retired from the world to live under a monastic rule so strict that it forbids even the self-indulgence of talking. Trendspotters have begun to wonder whether some of the U.S. reading public, in its search for peace, subconsciously wishes it could follow...
...have altered my Will ... I shall probably write another one. It is good fun having a lot of money to throw about, the only fun . . . The only moments of happiness I have ever known have been in dream and it was horrible to wake . . . I tell you I'm going to die any day now ... I am tired. It is time I went ... I must go on living because the Life Force is in desperate need of an organ of intelligent consciousness ... Do you think the young are interested in my work? ... I want to be remembered like Mozart...
Novelist Miller thought that the trouble might be her placid style. She decided to take a completely new course. She picked herself the pseudonym of Isabel Bolton and, in 1946, published a novel in a new, free style, Do I Wake or Sleep. It consisted pretty much of the interior monologues of a woman of intuitions, like Isabel Bolton. This time, the critics were watching. The New Yorker's Edmund Wilson found the Bolton style "exquisitely perfect in accent"; some of it he compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana...
...America). But last year he published an erudite mythological study of Her nature and origins (The White Goddess-TIME, Sept. 6) which packed such a punch that even poised Poet T. S. Eliot sagged at the knees, gasping: "Prodigious, monstrous, stupefying, indescribable." Graves has exhorted his fellow artists to wake up to the fact that the Goddess (who represents for him Nature, and the mysteries of birth, love and death...