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Future-Fan. That maiden attempt, though not terribly encouraging, was an echo from three decades ago, when Day-Lewis and the rest of the famous Oxford circle (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender) rumbled with even louder social comment. Like other "horizon-addicts and future-fans" of his time, Day-Lewis, in rebellion against his strict curate father, flirted briefly with Communism; he now recalls his stint as a party educator as "a signal instance of the blind leading the shortsighted." Protest verse did not sell, however, until a chance compliment from T. E. Lawrence was printed...
...lavish spender in private life, Peggy Lee hoards her musical resources, parceling them out with a parsimony that makes every jot count. Her sound, never big or brassy, is growing thin at the top and breathy at the bottom. So she spends her notes in the same way that dispossessed nobility lives on a dwindling income: with frugal selectivity but stylish aplomb. As she puts on weight, it becomes a little easier-but only a little-to believe that she is 47 and a grandmother. So she tones her act down to a quieter hush, focuses her emotions...
Padded Room. The letters show that Dylan could never honestly attribute his behavior to an artist's usual frustrations. He never suffered from a lack of recognition. When he was only 19, such poetic nabobs as T. S. Eliot and Stephen Spender were impressed by his published work, offering aid and encouragement. His chronic fault was that he was a wastrel-and not only in his constant pursuit of a new bed or bottle. He was recklessly profligate in everything. Some of these letters about relatively unimportant matters contain some of his best prose. Thus, in a lyrical homesick...
...known to use layers of paint burnished with one of his wife's nylons). Nolan also did a series of paintings inspired by Lowell's new play, Prometheus Bound, four of which appear with the story. His startling, highly imaginative visions bring to mind what Poet Stephen Spender once said of his work: "Conscious though he is of mystery, Nolan is not a mystifier. On the contrary, he is an explainer, and his figures, however bizarre, are self-explanatory...
...anti-Communist Congress for Cultural Freedom and, through it, several intellectual magazines, including Encounter, a U.S.British monthly. Braden added that a CIA agent had become an Encounter editor (this also was denied). Complaining that they had been deceived by past denials of CIA support, Editors Frank Kermode and Stephen Spender resigned...