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VOYAGER: A LIFE OF HART CRANE by John Unterecker. 787 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Thus Hart Crane in "To Brooklyn Bridge" describes the noon light biting into Wall Street. As a poet, Crane sought "surrender to the sensations of urban life." Out of such sensations, he said, he hoped to forge "a mystical synthesis of America," for which (he told his perplexed patron, Otto Kahn) "one might take the Sistine Chapel as an analogy...
...knew his Whitman "like a book," Robert Lowell has written, but Whitman was too great an invitation to incoherence, and "The Bridge" is at times incoherent. Crane admitted that in some of his short lyrics the words were chosen in fits of wine-induced ecstasy to the blare of jazz on a victrola. The idea was that the thoughts would blend and fertilize each other magically. Indeed, a few of the individual lyrics have come to seem as imperishable as Blake's. But the magic failed, so the 1920 critics said, when applied to the epic that Crane...
...Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe elected the following 19 girls yesterday: Joan C. Biella, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures; Leslie M. Crane, History; Lucy A. Bergson, English; Ruth Wells Chapman, History and Literature; Susan Trafton Edmunds, Classics; Frances Toby Shachat, Biology; Deborah Fiedler, History and Literature; Ruth A. Ryan, Chemistry; Brenda Sue Baker, Applied Mathematics; Patricia E. Moyer, Chemistry; Kathleen A. Birk, Sanskrit and Indian Studies; Joanna F. Seltzer, Social Studies; Marie I. Montamat, History; Dale Rosen, Social Studies; Ronnie E. Feuerstein, Government; Arden Aibel, Social Relations; Elizabeth S. Gimbel, English; Karen Johnson Train, English; Sarah Campbell...
...factory line like you turn out cars." But factory production of houses and room-sized components is an increasingly successful way to offset rising costs-in areas where unions and local laws allow such industrial methods to be used. U.S. Steel, Boise Cascade, National Homes, Guerdon Industries, Crane Co., Borg-Warner and many other firms have entered the field with ready-to-use rooms, baths or entire house sections...