… life. Yet he has evolved an elastic, racy style that deals casually with erudition and philosophy. Morally serious, … personal history ravaged for quick marketing: no small accomplishment in a period when it is all too easy for the … forties, sinks into oblivion and madness in the fifties, dies an early death in the sixties. Success undoes him. …
Essays
… stones through the streets of Santiago, the words would come to me in a flood. I would have said this or that, my … Trenet, one of two gallic tunes in his repertoire, which also included “C’est si bon.” I recited the poem in French … sagas, the sickness that bites the healthy animal. The poet died in 1973, ten days after the coup ended Salvador …
Criticism
… extras with the book. They’d provide you with an individual computer program to be installed and run just to read a … them? “iTunes,” you might call it?) Or imagine that some websites could only be accessed by downloading, installing, … ePub file isn’t particularly challenging (it’s basically a website, each chapter its own web page), with your average …
… Era. By Claude G. Bowers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. It may be the privilege, as it is certainly … means something even today when Progressivism has become grotesque and incomprehensible; and it is probable that it will continue to …
… regard to the liberated territories; we know that there are committees and conferences sitting learnedly upon these … wheel of history turns. We are stunned to find British soldiers and Greek patriots shooting each other down in the … been two great lacunae at precisely the two most important points. Although nothing whatever can be done save by the …
Poetry
… Marvel or Cherry Vanilla? It takes 206 bones to make a complete human skeleton, but it has to be the right bones. … & sigh & flutter and will not pay attention. We with our bodies are here to serve them, and so it is not their contempt …