Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proceedings the President left his seat in the grand ballroom, led a noisy, serpentine parade through the outer rooms where the party's lesser fry were seated. Then, after the whole crowd had jostled into the ballroom, he listened as speakers flayed the Republicans, praised Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R., the common man and themselves...
...best-selling soup. "Turtle soup," chortles the adman, captioning a pallid portrait of a lady in crinolines, "saved the sweethearts and mothers of a proud and gallant race." Another neighbor, variously known as Blackburn, Malatesta and Swarzkopf, turns out to be the Devil, and delivers some of Author Wilson's most envenomed and heartfelt opinions (notably on Stalinism) in a monologue written entirely in French...
...Fours Romp. The high points in the Memoirs are Mr. Wilson's soon-to-be-notorious love story, The Princess with the Golden Hair, and The Milhollands and Their Damned Soul. The Milhollands is an uproarious allfours romp through the whole world of U.S. writing, publishing and book-promotion. There is the eager young Yaleman who, after feeling that his "generation" has been "betrayed," first by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, then by the Marxists, winds up ballyhooing bellywash on national hookups. There is the Purity League's investigation of the Booklover when its personal columns sprout...
...reader that a man of the narrator's intelligence could pursue Imogen for two years without suspecting her obvious neurosis. Censors and eager beavers will be satisfied by certain passages which cannot be quoted in a magazine; adult readers may not be. It is possible to respect Edmund Wilson's intention and attempt without feeling that he has succeeded in what he tried...
...Critic Wilson's purpose is to develop a subtle and ambitious theme of Evil in our times. His observations are not always adequate to his ultrasophisticated posture; hence the posture; sometimes looks a little self-deceived. But such civilized writing and observation are rare in the U.S. nowadays, and on its merits Memoirs of Hecate County is pretty certainly the best contemporary chronicle, so far, of its place and period. Evil is as vivid through the book as a bushful of snakes...