Word: garlington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editors thought there was much awry with the proliferating little literary enterprises. Said one of the symposium contributors, William Mathes: "There must be some worth mentioning. I just haven't been able to think of any." One of the problems seemed to be an inevitable conformity. Said Jack Garlington of Western Humanities Review: "The fact that most of us belong to the same class -we're eggheads, whether we admit it or not-contributes to a certain homogeneity in itself...
...main excuse for the magazines, said Garlington, is that writers need a place to publish. For a typical issue, Garlington reported, he has 900 submitted essays, short stories and poems to choose from. In addition, "the Mississippi of mediocrity," as The Sixties' Bly put it, "has deepened lately because the colleges have found literary magazines useful for their prestige," and cheap at the price-as little as $10,000 a year. "The cost is comparatively low in view of athletic budgets," noted Colorado's Carter wryly...