Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staging Under Milk Wood as a simple reading was one mistake, staging it as a farce was another. The play leaves an acrid taste behind unless the inhabitants of Llareggub, Thomas's imaginary Welsh backwater, retain their basic dignity. We follow them through a typical spring day -- eavesdropping as they dream, work, gossip, wish, torment one another, and frolic in the hay -- and almost everyone is bizarre and funny. But the purpose of the tour is to change our minds, to make us see the human beings behind the aberrations. If our feelings don't change and deepen, if automatic...
...LIFE OF DYLAN THOMAS, by Constantine FitzGibbon. The Welsh poet's penchant for mooching, thievery, drunkenness and womanizing is not spared; yet this fine biography is an affectionate portrait of the man "who may have sponged on his friends economically, but spiritually it was more the other way about...
...LIFE OF DYLAN THOMAS, by Constantine FitzGibbon. Besides being a genius, Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas was also a perennial problem child who mooched off his friends and slept with their wives, ignored his children, and drank ceaselessly. FitzGibbon, a friend of Thomas', brings the two images brilliantly into focus as he follows the poet from a spoiled childhood through a tempestuous marriage to a premature death in America from an overdose of whisky...
...Dylan Thomas as she rushed into a Manhattan hospital where the poet lay stricken with a "massive alcoholic insult to the brain." The answer is no. Twelve years after his death, even people who think poetry is what appears on greeting cards have heard the legend that the wild Welsh wonderboy was the greatest lush, lecher, and lyric poet produced in this century by the English-speaking world...
...onanism and had committed an indecency with a member of Parliament. He slept with any woman who was willing, subsisted largely on a diet of ice cream sodas mixed with ale instead of seltzer, and all the while belabored the general ear with wild and wonderful hwyl, as the Welsh call eloquence...