Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nominees for the second rank are blessed with much less unanimity of acclaim. . . . For the second rank among the "immortals," I submit the names of Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wilson...
...Critic Edmund Wilson has made a book of his friend's glittering, tragic life. It is in part a collection of essays, poems and letters written about Fitzgerald by his admirers (including Poets T. S. Eliot and John Peale Bishop, Critic Paul Rosenfeld, Novelist Wescott, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Wolfe). But the bulk of The Crack-Up consists of selections from Fitzgerald's own essays, stories, notebooks and letters, including the famed scarifying confession (published in Esquire in 1936) in which Fitzgerald explained his decline from high-ranking novelist to Hollywood hack. The result...
...Edmund Wilson has chosen the pieces for The Crack-Up so carefully that they lead in a straight, chronological line from Fitzgerald's youth and glory to his maturity and misery. Every aspect of his life and work - the brilliant, the second-rate, the real, the illusory - is shown. Readers may differ on the question of Fitzgerald's survival value, but they will respect Author Wescott's statement that Fitzgerald's life and fate mirrored the life and fate of a whole period of American life. "He was our darling, our genius, our fool. ... He lived...
...none of the brass ever hears any of it. And that makes it all seem even more futile than it is. But we know that Mauldin hits home where we can't. Maybe General Patton has only seen two, but every squawk. from him, from Base Section General Wilson, and some of the old-line R.A. Colonels-that makes the next five miles seem like only four! And when General Eisenhower backed up Mauldin against all the stars-well, after that, Ike was our man. Through Up Front we can bitch to the men we want to listen. [SERVICEMAN...
...enjoy the leavetaking. At a farewell party at the Statler Hotel she gave Senator Robert F. Wagner an astonishing kiss on the cheek; at another party she shook the hands of 1,800 Labor Department employes (see cut). Her plans: a month in Maine with her ailing husband Paul Wilson; beyond that she would not say. The other departing Cabinet officers were more definite about their futures. Francis Biddle would take up lawyering in Philadelphia. Frank Walker would go back to his chain of Pennsylvania and New York movie theaters. Claude Wickard took on at once his ten-year plum...