Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of it is good if not exceptional. David Chandler's Sonnet achieves a poignant, sustained effect from a careful control of visual images and brilliantly worded passages. Neither the cadence, sound, nor form interfere with his feelings on growing up. The poem advances smoothly and communicates directly. Southampton Beach, by Charles Neuhauser, relies more on sense impressions and reflections inspired by them. In places, the impressions seem redundant, yet the transitions to reflection are expertly handled. It is sometimes difficult to know exactly what Neuhauser is saying, however, because he uses a development of ideas as subject rather than...
That was in turn-of-the-century days, when any millionaire looking for the shortest distance between the cash register and the social register usually made a beeline for such society resorts as Saratoga, Bar Harbor, Tuxedo Park, Southampton, Palm Beach and Newport. In those days, Society with a capital S was blissfully unaware that Taxes with a capital T would ever chase it away from its playgrounds. Nowadays, as one New-porter put it before he died in 1950: "The '400' has been marked down...
...principals of The Quiet Man may not lure travelers to Ireland, but the scenery certainly will. The Technicolor countryside ought to make any tourist skip the Loire and travel west from Southampton instead...
...booked heavily through July, the tourist flights are expected to swell to a record 400,000 the number of American tourists traveling in Europe this year. Sample tourist fare this summer: round trip from New York to London, $486, v. $711 first class; (roundtrip tourist class by boat to Southampton...
Hair Shirt & Cadillac. Some people think a television screen a strange place to encounter a bishop. Fulton Sheen sees nothing strange about it. He has been broadcasting for 25 years (22 of them on the Catholic Hour). He has spoken millions of words-at everything from testimonial dinners to Southampton weddings, from university commencements to Brooklyn communion breakfasts. He has preached in great cathedrals and on Alabama street corners; he would (in the words of Christ's instruction to the apostles) preach upon the housetops, if the occasion arose...