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Engaged. Elizabeth Gray Morison, dark, pretty, seafaring daughter of HaVard's Sailor-Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (Second Voyage of Columbus); and Edward D. W. Spingarn, Trinity College economics instructor and son of the late great Critic-Libertarian Joel Elias Spingarn; in Boston...
...investigation in the able hands of two eminent, conservative Republican lawyers - State Senator Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 42, and onetime New York City Corporation Counsel Paul Windels. Mr. Windels went to work in Brooklyn College, was warmly welcomed by its tall, tweedy president, Harry D. Gideonse (pronounced Gideons), onetime critic and foe of President Robert Maynard Hutchins at University of Chicago (TIME, June 13, 1938). Mr. Gideonse took charge of Brooklyn College last year, has bickered with its leftist students and professors ever since. One of their complaints: Mr. Gideonse once entered a restaurant through a picket line...
...fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" Responsible for this conception is Shelley's official biographer, Professor Edward Dowden, and a whole school of Victorian apologists. They have busily sold Shelley as an inspired listener to skylarks, with an unfortunate but irrelevant "interest in social revolution. Critic-Poet Francis Thompson advised would-be Shelleyans to "peep over the wild mass of revolutionary metaphysics" and discover that Bysshe (rhymes with pish) was just an "enchanted child...
...Foster Damon, noted poet and critic, will give a poetry reading tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson 211, under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund. Damon is Professor of English and Curator of the Harris Collection of American Poetry at Brown University and author of numerous volumes of verse and studies of English literature...
Melville, says steely Critic Blackmur, "habitually used words greatly," but was grievously limited to "putative statement" -to talking about dramatic intentions rather than embodying them. He was at his best in sermons, where the putative need not support itself. Emily Dickinson was pitifully irresponsible with words, too often wrote, instead of her extraordinary best, "a kind of vers de société of the soul...