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...addition to the money grants, members of the University faculty are contributing copies of their own books in an effort to build up a permanent library at the Seminar's Leopoldskron headquarters. Heller announced that C. Crane Brinton '19. McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History. P. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature Clyde K. M. Blackholm, professor of Anthropology, and Summer H. Slichter, Lament University Professor, have taken part in the movement...
...fame rests not so much on his actual work as on his standing as a classic example of the frustrated American genius. If a Marxist critic wished for an illustration of the breakdown of culture under capitalism, he could scarcely find a clearer one than the career of Hart Crane...
...Hart Crane's mother (he was the only child) divorced her husband, had a nervous breakdown, became an ardent Christian Scientist, exhausted herself working in an antique shop, tried unsuccessfully to compel her son to go to college. His friends were the few emancipated spirits who congregated around Herbert Fletcher's bookshop in Akron, and later the New York and expatriate intellectuals who contributed to the little magazines...
...Escape. Crane's jobs included working briefly in a shipyard, on a newspaper, in a warehouse. In later years, he was a surprisingly able advertising copywriter, and seems to have enjoyed the work. He was paid only $25 or $35 a week, hesitated to ask for raises, and almost never got one. When he planned to run away from civilization to the family plantation on the Isle of Pines in the West Indies, he found that the plantation had been put up for sale...
...pattern of his life cooled into finality before he was 25. Says Author Weber: "Having been unable to adjudicate between the claims of poetry and the need to earn his living, Crane found that he could obtain relief by evading the issue. He ... trusted in the natural benevolence of circumstances. . . . The suffering . . . was made tolerable only by his optimism and acceptance of evil as a necessary component of reality. The devices which he had originally employed as tools for innocent purposes-alcohol to stimulate his poetic gift, sexual indulgence for the love which it engendered-became narcotics, less adequate...