Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...means certain last week that Adolf Hitler had abandoned his plans to invade the British Isles. In fact British confidence that he had might be what he was waiting for. But it did seem certain that the war's centre of gravity was tending south; that Germany would soon play some taking cards in the Mediterranean area. The worst that could happen would be everything at once: invasion of Britain, a Spanish-based blow at Gibraltar, a German-supported Blitzkrieg across Egypt to the Suez Canal, an Italian drive down the Nile, turbulence in the Balkans and a diversion...
...died (aged 43) last month. Harvard-man, architectural historian, Socialist, he was one of the most famous unheard-of poets in the U. S. Wheelwright's reputation is based on several books of crankily learned, lyrically didactic verse. Political Self-Portrait, like its predecessors, is full of what seem like the antics of an annunciatory angel dancing on the top of a Harvard education. But that does not prevent the book from bringing its reader hard up against an incandescent, no-fooling poetical and political faith...
Poetry and politics do not seem like strangers to each other in Wheelwright's book, because its author had no doubt whatever that political freedom and verbal truth are the interrelated objectives of every wide-awake, decent man on earth. Political Self-Portrait is a kind of rebel's hornbook, full of references to the doctrines and deeds of those who Wheelwright felt have most signally helped-and hindered-truth-telling and liberty. On the angels' side, among others, are Prometheus, Jesus Christ, and the old Rev. John. On the other side may be found Cain, Stalin...
...first, the plot would seem to be thread-bare, even implausible in spots. Well, it is. And many of the speeches are dull and the minor characters poorly drawn. But Gladys George dominates the play like Louis XIV's sun. And like him, "la piece...
...have not discovered any type Harvard boy, as people seem inclined to think of them," Harlow writes. "The boys here are just as individualized as at any other college. And there is even a bit of the small-college-football atmosphere...