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...composer, he has been both a popular success and a daring musical explorer, both a commercial artist unafraid of writing for money on assignment (e.g., his Tango for piano solo, his elephants' polka for the Ringling Brothers Circus) and yet an uncompromising individualist. Says Impresario Lincoln Kirstein: "He heard first for us all. Sounds he has found or invented, however strange or forbidding at the outset, have become domesticated in our ears...
...haunting the galleries of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum in a wheelchair. Convinced that he wanted to become a museum man, Walker went to Harvard ('30), breezed through the Fogg Museum training course summa cum laude, found time on the side to found (with Balletomane Lincoln Kirstein and Esthete Edward M. M. Warburg) the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art (profaned by other Harvard-men as the Society for Contemptuous Art) and contribute to Kirstein's then fashionable, upperbrow Hound and Horn...
...than the titles above would indicate. Among their ranks are not only Eliot, Aiken, and DeVoto, but George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Van Wyck Brooks, e.e. cummings, Robert Hillyer, Malcolm Cowley, and James Laughlin. In the dramatic line, John Mason Brown, Lincoln Kirstein, and Leonard Bernstein were Advocateers. A few have even become political luminaries: Teddy and F.D. Roosevelt, as well as A.M. Schlesinger, Jr. Such a list is certainly a telling justification for the Advocate's existence. That the alumni themselves feel that they owe much to the magazine is proven by their...
Throughout the twenties the Advocate held its sway in undergraduate literature, with such men as T.S. Eliot and Conrad Aiken figuring notably in its ranks. In the thirties, however, as the Advocate's concerns became increasingly political, there was another burst of dissension, and Lincoln Kirstein formed Hound and Horn, a short-lived critical review. Another magazine, The Critic, succumbed in 1934, when it voted to merge with the Advocate...
...improve the state of the Nation, Editor McWilliams hopes to expand the U.N. and Washington coverage, build up the back-of-the-book sections with better coverage of art, books, theater, radio-TV, music. How much building he can do actually depends on new Publisher George G. Kirstein, son of the former chairman of Boston's William Filene's Sons Co. To pay some of the Nation's bills, Kirstein is himself putting a limited (and unspecified) sum into the nonprofit company that holds all Nation stock, hopes to raise enough new cash to beef...