Volume 49, Number 8 · May 9, 2002
A Light Black World
By Al Alvarez
The Darkness and the Light
by Anthony Hecht
Knopf, 67 pp., $23.00. To be published in paperback in June 2002.
Anthony Hecht was born in 1923, which means he belongs to the generation of writers who served in World War II and hit their stride in the 1950s. From the perspective of the cultural anarchy that was about to break loose, the Fifties are usually dismissed as a timorous and conformist decade: the cold war was at its height, nuclear catastrophe seemed imminent, Senator McCarthy was on the rampage, and liberals everywhere kept their heads well below the parapet.
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