July 1, 1965
Children of Violence
Children of Violence by Doris Lessing. Simon and Schuster, $7.50. I have had eight weeks’ experience of matrimony. And do I regret the step I have taken? No, though I […]
July 1, 1965
On the Spoor of the Beatnik
Dark Passages by Barbara Charlesworth. The University of Wisconsin Press, $5.00. There is something both ludicrous and faintly dispiriting in the prospect of the doomed writers of the 1890s—Yeats’s “tragic […]
July 1, 1965
The Puzzleheaded Girl
Debrett liked his job in the old-style German bank in Broad Street, but he soon saw that the partners’ sons were coming into the firm and he could not rise […]
July 1, 1965
Look at These Moscow Pictures
The Moscow University Preparatory School for Young Nobles. On the Corner of Tver Street (Gorki Street) and Newspaper Alley (Ogarev Street). The Building Has Not Been Preserved. —Photograph caption Look […]
July 1, 1965
Mangham
Somewhere between bells the right angles staggered And Mangham poised, sensing thunder, Something crookèd in the straight lines of his brain. Chalk dust rose from his shoulders, lost more Weight, […]
July 1, 1965
A Short Story about Saints, Priests, Races, Etc.
Twenty Pounds of The Hexaglot Bible, VOL. V, The Gospels, Etc. hung from Stulka’s heart toward Lucid’s. “Ahungh?” asked Lucid. “The phone is for you, Francis.” Stulka was full of […]
July 1, 1965
A Song to Be Vindicated
A little like the Macon, drawing-board baroque, An ornate rocket ship knifes through the inked-in smoke, Her life-class pilot faceless. Is it Flash? Brick? Buck? And in that Art Nouveau […]
April 1, 1965
When I Came Home
Translated from German. When I came home I found a sailor in my room who had landed with his boat on a cupboard and was trying to get down— […]
April 1, 1965
Death Duties
Mrs. X has agreed, but, “It will be 140,000 Lire. The signora is in her third month.” This is 60,000 more than the figure she first quoted Giorgio. He is […]
April 1, 1965
The Scholar
George Russell, who was full of Hegelianism, used to argue that Irish literature developed in pairs. There were himself and Yeats, then Stephens and Colum, then Austin Clarke and F.R. […]
April 1, 1965
The Day the Perfect Speakers Left
It was as though it had begun to rain lightly On the amazed stillness of birds And leave-taking was another, Sadder version of dusk we were attending, And as though […]
April 1, 1965
Rebellion and Rhetoric
The Life of the Drama by Eric Bentley. Atheneum Publishers, $5.95. The Impossible Theater by Herbert Blau. The Macmillan Company, $10.00. The Theatre of Revolt by Robert Brustein. Little, Brown […]