Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only once in The Old Century does war overshadow Sassoon's mellow recollections of his Kent childhood, his nurses, tutors, governesses, Thornycroft relatives, boys' schools. Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war," the "heavily armed pursuit of peace." But he quickly decides that "I must give up feeling bad-tempered about it, or I should be ruining my afternoon." For the rest, the War's corpses are peacefully buried. So is his onetime vow to write to "scandalize the jolly...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) returns to conduct the NBC Symphony in Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony, Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Loeffler's Memories of My Childhood, Wagner's prelude to Die Meister singer...
Last week the Southern Literary Messenger was revived, in format a duplicate of its old self. Dedicated to "a renaissance in Southern literature," its new editor is Richmond-born Frieda Meredith Dietz, 34, who in childhood "listened for the echo" of Poe's footsteps in the old Messenger building, where her father ran a print shop. (Her brother, August Dietz Jr., 36, is publisher...
...seven generations the U. S. people have been moving to the city* but as their bodies moved cityward, their day dreams moved in the opposite direction. Year by year nostalgic books about the agrarian past have grown in popularity-books by and about grandmothers and grandfathers, memoirs of farm childhoods. One of the most popular was Delia Thompson Lutes's The Country Kitchen, recalling the Michigan childhood of a sturdy, quick-eyed girl who grew up to edit women's magazines, write etiquette books, &detest Faulkner and the end of Anthony Adverse.& The American Booksellers Association voted...
Thomas the Cynic assures Mr. W. that his inhibited childhood, his artistic frustration, fake War record, headaches and schizophrenia constitute excellent personal assets for a dictator. He explains how these handicaps can be turned into heroic myths, explains how to fight Socialism with the catch phrases of Socialism, how to provoke disorder and terror as a pretext to establish order, how to avoid all argument based on rationality, how to exploit the plentiful relics of primitive barbarism which still survive in modern man, and thus turn to Fascist account a Freudian discovery which Socialists naively underrated...