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...chronicle is a work of scholarship as well as a novel. The sets, costumes and psychologies are as authentic as Professor George R. Stewart could make them. But Phrax is imaginary, a city that might have been, but never was. "It is Greek-yes," says Author Stewart in his foreword. "But do not turn to the atlas . . . Do not consider too deeply what century...
Like newborn colts, just experiencing first impressions, the contributors to the first Freshman Review wobble through their first fearless but awkward steps. As Archibald MacLeish says in his extremely frank foreword, "There is nowhere . . . the signature of incontestable talent." The stories are in many places rough and virtually formless, yet they are, at least, frank and unhesitantly autobiographical...
...responsibility to externals which caused this atrophy (of the artist submerged in an academic society) is in fact the irresponsibility of the individual to himself." This quotation from the foreword indicates the polemic aim of i.e., The Cambridge Review, now in its second issue. The polemic, however, is not directed toward a definite set of ideas; nor has it been adequately enunciated in the two forewords which have appeared so far. Nevertheless, the editor, Leo Raditsa, has avowedly attempted to organize and to stimulate an attack upon "the new irresponsibility...
...Foreword to i.e. is written with a brashness which is both refreshing and immature. Its assertion of the manner in which i.e. will try to "fumble toward some truth" through "the process of recognition and remembrance of sensation" must be admired for its sincerity but condemned for the inherently confused and narrow viewpoint which it entails. But that the editors have provoked a new vitality both in their writers and their audience is undeniable. ALEXANDER GELLEY
...This booklet," the foreword points out, "disregards the matter of TIME'S reporting to concentrate on the manner. What you will find are 'fragments'-sometimes a whole story, but as often as not a single sentence from a story, or a paragraph." Early reactions have been so favorable that I thought regular TIME-readers might like copies for themselves. If you would like one, just drop me a line...