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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Beaded Sweat. His work was a triumph of the will. At his best, he wrote with an audacious, staccato directness which permanently altered the rhythm and content of American fiction. The core of that achievement is the self-explanatory novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and a handful of poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat...
...note with pleasure and heartily endorse the position of the CRIMSON on both the content and spelling of "skepticism" adopted in your lead editorial of December 12 last. It will be remembered that our Society fought this same issue-the productivity of skepticism-with Father Leonard Feeney late S.J. in the debating arena last fall...
...classical view of the relation of poetry and war, MacLeish explained, was that poetry came afterwards and told the story, justifying was to some extent. But this presupposes that there is a return to peace, and now war goes on and on continually. Poetry can no longer be content to describe war, but must criticize war and give us an image of human perfection for which we can live...
...mostly dry, the more traditional painters were soggy. Even the much-admired ones often succeeded by mere competence. Henry Koerner's blend of banality and obscurity, Fire on the Beach, was an ashen canvas warmed by brilliant drawing alone. John Koch's The Monument was curious in content and cottony in color, but it had a complexity and depth of composition that few moderns could bring off. Isabel Bishop's Nude Bending (one of the show's few nudes) was so dimly painted it looked like a fading wraith, but its every line and highlight...
...Columbia explained his action further by saying that "a lot of things have happened in the past few years in the ideological scene." He is very close to the truth, but the main change, as far as this country is concerned, is in the treatment, rather than the content of ideologies. Universities have been succumbing to the present hysteria against anyone who happens to be unorthodox in his opinions; there is danger that they will soon become entirely rigid as far as ideologies are concerned...