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...while his playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born." There also the shipwrecked men tediously conspired and caroused. When, at the last - his enemies forgiven, Ariel and Caliban set free - Prospero forswears magic, he seems indeed (as many men have thought) to symbolize Shakespeare himself, breaking his own poetic wand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Feb. 5, 1945 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Katharsis. In Perry, N.Y., a classified ad appeared in the Perry Herald, asking nothing, offering nothing, merely complaining: "Some lousy whelp stole my snow shovel off my porch last week. Margaret Keelty, North Center Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Guelphs and Ghibellines are names familiar to historians, confusing to the laity. Guelph comes from hwelp or whelp, meaning a wolf's pup, and Ghibelline is an Italian attempt to pronounce the name of the counts of Waiblingen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Welfenschatz | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...Underwood] two years ago and insulted him with their editorial attacks. They have insulted me or would have done so if I did not consider the source. But what do I care about these little hired hickory-nut heads sticking something in their pockets, and some little irresponsible whelp going out and writing something hid behind a screen reflecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSCLE SHOALS: Something Doing | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Newfoundland whelp said to be destructive of crockery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 23, 1923 | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

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