Word: classicist
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...their starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew on the stringent cud of their inner man. Among U. S. poets who chew nutritious cuds are Southern Classicist Allen Tate and Northern Romantic Wallace Stevens...
...since done a notable job in modernizing Yale's course requirements and in adjusting New Haven life to Repeal, explained that he wanted to get back to his other Yale work as Dunham Professor of Latin Language & Literature and master of Branford College. An Oxford-trained classicist of the old school, Professor Mendell is noted for his knowledge of Tacitus, his ability to translate the Epistles of Horace in the style of Ring Lardner, the age of his pipes, his soft-soled shoes, his unfailing politeness with miscreants. Neither retiring President Angell, now vacationing in Bermuda, nor President-elect...
...defense, because on few old-fashioned Democratic Policies has the New Deal placed reliance. Last week, however, the one member of the Cabinet who has never been labeled a New Dealer was ordered to the stump in defense of the Administration. Obediently Secretary of State Cordell Hull, a Democratic classicist from Tennessee, packed his bag, boarded a Pullman headed for Minneapolis to speak from the very platform where Alf Landon spoke a fortnight earlier, to answer the attack which that Republican Nominee leveled at President Roosevelt's reciprocal trade agreements...
Died. Montague Rhodes James, 73, British educator and classicist, since 1918 Provost of Eton College; after long illness; in Eton, England. Respected among scholars for his Bible studies, his wider fame rested on his best-selling antiquarian ghost stories. His paragraph in Who's Who was 14 lines longer than his nearest competitor, Nicholas Murray Butler...
...Lost Generation. His famed Waste Land has stood like a lighthouse against which whole flocks of sophisticated blues-writers have dashed themselves in vain emulation. When Poet Eliot expatriated himself to England, there were few disapproving murmurs from his followers. But when he publicly renounced agnosticism, announced himself a "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion," he started an indignant fluttering in literary incubators that has not yet died down. Poet Eliot, now a naturalized British subject, a scholarly editor (The Criterion), even more highly regarded in his foster-country than...