January 1, 1965
Adages
One who is enough of a simpleton to become writer is capable of any folly. The production of morals in the last 50 years has far exceeded our capacity to […]
January 1, 1965
Frost
Selected Letters of Robert Frost edited by Lawrance Thompson. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $10.00. This selection of Frost’s letters (466 out of some 1500 that are extant) amounts to an […]
January 1, 1965
Another Grandfather
Every generation tells Of how the good world died. How he went into the giant corn At night, leaving the dogs. Always they said it was the end Once and […]
January 1, 1965
We Have Seen the Best of Our Times
DILLWORTH PLANTE was a gray man even in what youth he had. His mother remembered that he had cried so little and slept so stonily as a baby that people […]
January 1, 1965
Napoli Again
Long before I hear it Naples bright with buildings trumpets from the hill. A tugboat toots “paisan” and I am back. That dock I sailed from eighteen years ago. This […]
January 1, 1965
The Conjugation of the Paramecium
This has nothing to do with propagating The species is continued as so many are (among the smaller creatures) by fission (and this species is very small next in order […]
January 1, 1965
Maratea, Pizzeria S. Biagio
For Biagio Avigliano When you hobble, tattered through the square, they say: come in. We keep the maimed alive. The specialty today: hare Neapolitan or baccala. The price will be […]
January 1, 1965
Vital Statistics
Ismelda was one of the Catholic children the convent taught for nothing, making it up on the fees charged for non-Catholic pupils. Not all of the Catholics were free pupils, […]
October 1, 1964
Literary Culture: Social Reason
The Broken Image: Man, Science, and Society by Floyd W. Matson. George Braziller. $6.95. We are all rather tired of the Snow-Leavis controversy; partly, I think, because both sides score […]
October 1, 1964
Cinderella
About that child: magic Wouldn't have helped, had she Been, by nature, a beauty, Even ugly. Remember Your toad, slammed on tiles By princess he wished, who rose Unfortunate prince. […]
October 1, 1964
Rhetoricians and Politicians
The Language Of Politics In The Age Of Wilkes And Burke by James T. Boulton. University of Toronto Press. $6.75. Nowadays, political debate sufficiently dreary—blighted by cant, slogan, and arid […]
October 1, 1964
Fiction North and South
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence. Alfred A. Knopf. $4.95. Along That Coast by John Peter. Doubleday and Company. $4.95. Boswell by Stanley Elkin. Random House. $5.95. On Ice by […]