Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frontier. How goes the avantgarde? A survey of the present leaders in the little magazine field (Evergreen Review, New World Writing, Contact, Noble Savage, Paris Review) suggests some unexpected findings: 1) There is no longer much interest in experimenting in form; Joyce (with Finnegans Wake) and e. e. cummings tried everything worth trying, pushing human comprehension to its last frontier. On balance, the new writers seem to have concluded that there is nothing very much there. 2) The fires of radicalism have grown cold. Thirty years ago, the little magazines were militantly leftist as a matter of course; today nothing...
There is a surprising amount of good poetry, most of it-like the prose-in conventional forms. New poets like X. J. Kennedy, Daniel J. Langton, James Wright, established poets like Donald Davie, Howard Nemerov, Louis Simpson are well represented by well-wrought verse. One newsworthy item (in Evergreen Review): a strong anti-oppression poem by jailed Soviet Poet Yesenin-Volpin, natural son of the Yesenin who was one of Isadora Duncan's lovers...
Norman Mailer does some more public paddling in the diminishing pool of his soul (in Paris Review). In Evergreen's all-German issue, Marianne Kesting reminisces about a seven-year-old visit to the late German playwright Bertolt Brecht...
...Carlisle lets Ilya Ehrenburg reveal his rich store of platitude. In Contact the bitterly brilliant Philip O'Connor presents a series of capsule interviews with aging writers of the British Establishment, "gentlemen in and out of letters," ranging from Bertrand Russell to Poet-Essayist Herbert Read. And in Evergreen Robert Stromberg shows another side of the late maligned (and malignable) Louis-Ferdinand Céline...
...When you get older, you get more ambitious," bubbled evergreen Schmalz King Rudolph Friml, who at 81 still takes a daily dip in the chilly Pacific, follows it up with five minutes of handstands and six hours at the piano. Convinced that "everyone is tired of unmelodious music," Friml hopes that his first new operetta since 1934, a "real Frenchie" confection called Rendezvous in Paris, will tinkle onto Broadway during the coming season...