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John Peale Bishop is the proudest literary boast of Charles Town, W. Va. where John Brown was tried and hanged. Of the same Princeton generation as Novelist Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Critic Edmund Wilson, he has for years been regarded by his contemporaries as a dark horse who had not yet shown his real paces. He placed in the money four years ago when his story, Many Thousands Gone, won a $5,000 prize. His collection of poems. Now With His Love, got him a good rating on form. Last week bystanders saw him perform for the first time...
...ablest exponents of the existing order will cry out at this arbitrary treatment of Mr. Strachey, for they maintain that when they know the critic's reasoning they are better able to refute the accusations. As Villard, a prominent liberal and recent lecturer at Harvard, said "repression was never yet a remedy for anything." Martyrdom and emotionalism, it has been historically proved time and time again, always will be the subvertor's most effective weapons...
Furthermore, it is a mistake to call English 5 simply "an advanced composition course." To participate in its activities one must be not only able to write moderately well, but one must also be a philosopher, an historian, a critic, poet, sociologist, and politician, all in one English 5 transcends any limits that the word "composition" may try to put on it, and furnishes real food for thought, which, when digested, frequently re-appears on paper...
...energetically and with biting sarcasm examines critically some of the statements made by Mr. Craven in his book on "Modern Art." "So virulent is the abuse," says Mr. Fry in reference to this work of Craven's, "that it arouses the suspicion that Mr. Craven attempted to paint, and failing, was turned down by the Academy; then, like other failures, he vented his charging by turning art critic and vilifying the Academicians...
...Critic. What U. S. dairymen need are not fancy animals but any sort of cow that gives high quantities of good milk. The two, says Critic Prentice, are not necessarily, or even often, the same. There is a false emphasis on '"type" (show-ring points) and pedigree. High milk production is an inherited capacity which cannot be told by looking at the creature. Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their...