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… surface at least, John Berryman’s suicide in 1972 seemed to come at a time when life had begun to reward him most amply. … himself and left/that fragrant area. /When the mind dies it exudes rich critical prose.” But Berryman exuded … Anyone who is familiar with his work may also note the many points at which this volume intersects Berryman’s poetic …

… who takes her shirt off and a picturesque decapitation. He also had Ferris Bueller. I watched the film in a state of … Ferris himself (Matthew Broderick, unbearably young) comes across as a charming manipulator utterly devoted to … by his own conflicted impulses, torn between outrage and obedience. In a very real sense, he needs someone to take …

… Dickens. By Arthur L. Hayward. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $6.00. From the outbreak of the World War it became … time-servers; but all defenders of conventions, even false conventions, are not hypocrites. A man may be dishonest … beautiful rendering of the French proverb: A brebis tondue Dieti mesure le vent. ‘God tempers the wind,’ said the …

… but it was uninterruptedly in one direction. Political expediency may have caused him to deviate on special points, but there are few men in public life whose course … of the American mind in words so firm and plain as to command assent.” There was nothing that was novel in the …

… its meaning to talk in terms of superlatives. Their comments are likely to have a poetic, not to say mystical, … powerhouses and looked over the reservoirs from the vantage points provided for visitors can testify how well this goal … country, which can repay much of its cost and improve farm diets by the preservation of meat and other farm products. …