Word: wordsworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barretts of Wimpole Street have enamel bathtubs? Did Dr. Johnson ever use a flush toilet or have any idea of a sanitary latrine? Did Charles Dickens ever hear a radio? Did Goethe ever handle a camera? . . . Did Charles Lamb ever see Ginger Rogers or use a plastic toothbrush? Did Wordsworth ever cross in the Hudson Tunnel or drive on the Merritt Parkway? . . . Why must we be the mirror to the universe? Where are the standards? The invalid assumptions must fall away, and some common standard for all humanity must be rediscovered...
...difficulties in conversation will strike a responsive chord in the cochlea of every hard-of-hearing person. She admired Malthus but could not understand him; he had a harelip and a cleft palate. Wordsworth took his teeth out after dinner, which made his most inspired words unintelligible to poor Harriet...
...like this, but Vag would satisfy both himself and the hypothetical taskmaster by studying on the river bank. He closed his book and strode out of the library and through the Yard, breathing in the invigorating spring air. Poetry filled his soul. He thought of a stanza from Wordsworth that went something like...
...never liked Wordsworth in prep school, but today he had to admit that the old duck wasn't half bad. He was drawing near Larz Anderson Bridge now, and he felt wonderful as he idly watched single sculls whisk by far below. Then, he was over on the other side of the river. He turned towards Newell and suddenly espied two pug-nosed Cambridge waifs sitting on the bank fishing. Vag looked at them grandiloquently. "Salve, piscatores," he said. "Same to you, fish-face," came the reply...
...Green Was My Valley (20th Century-Fox) is Hollywood's answer to Wordsworth's definition of poetry: emotion recollected in tranquillity. Its story (from Richard Llewellyn's novel) is an aging man's remembrance of his boyhood among a lyric, godly race of coal miners in a green Welsh valley. Because his recollections ring true, they are certain to evoke a similar nostalgia in all but the most slab-sided of moviegoers...