Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Critic Mencken, whose ability to write at a canter while thinking at a trot made him a popular literary spectacle, first published his ambitious philological work, The American Language. Weaver, a young journalist who read it enthusiastically, put it to the proof. He sent Mencken, then editing the Smart Set magazine, a piece entitled Elegie Americaine. Excerpt...
...farms, coastal or freshwater, winters as an English professor at Bowdoin in Brunswick. In all his books Coffin tries to bear witness that poetry, or at least his kind of poetry, begins at home. "Poetry," to Coffin, "is saying the best one can about life." In his early work Coffin tried to say his best about life by loading his lines with mythological, chivalric, floral and religious references. But he soon came under the influence of Robert Frost (TIME, May 15), whose work helped him to see "poetry in common speech and people and in usual sights...
...about the young Greenwich Villager who let her hair flow to her shoulders when others chopped theirs off at the nape. Her unforgettable name, unconventional personality and well-educated way with words constituted a triple threat against critical judgment; and nothing that anybody could say for or against her work could help or hinder her being popularly acclaimed the champion U. S. poetess...
...Rose as it was being written, translating into French as she went along, and Rose suggested numerous incidents. Says Gertrude" "Rose likes her book; she likes her book very much." Gertrude also says it will be a short war, and she is not planning to do any ambulance work this time...
...difficult for anyone having even a vague knowledge of Epstein's work to deny his excellence as a sculptor. Such creations as DAY and NIGHT, GENESIS and ORIOL, ROSS show a new and invigorating vision completely free from academic stodginess. In many respects Epstein occupies the same relative position in his medium of expression, that of stone, as James Joyce does in the world of the novel, and his work is as difficult to grasp as Joyce's. To the religious person, the ADAM looms large as a distasteful desecration of the scriptures; some people gaze in silent admiration; others...