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...definition (he is a business success, therefore he is normal), Wallace Stevens cannot comfortably be classified as just a mud-dauber. As a vice president, presumably he can make perfectly good, understandable sense any time he feels like it. When he writes poetry, however-as he has been doing, after hours, for some 45 years-apparently he feels no compulsion to be lucid; or else he feels that what he wants to say cannot possibly be said clearly. By him, at any rate...
...reputation in avant-garde literary circles is just as solid as his reputation in business. His latest bouquet from U.S. poetry pundits was this year's Bollingen Prize.* Stevens makes no excuses for his double life. "Poetry," says he, "is my way of making the world palatable. It's a way of making one's experience, almost wholly inexplicable, acceptable." Nor does he make any excuses for his poems' obscurity...
...make this re-recording the Band assembled 100 pieces of its famed 150-man outfit in Sanders Theatre last spring. Tarpaulins were draped from the balconies of the theatre to eliminate the hollow tones of the earlier album, R.C.A. Victor technicians claim that the use of the canvas along with the latest in equipment make the recordings "near perfect...
Control over the number of radio and television appearances made by Radcliffe students will also rest with Miss Projansky, as all students wishing to make such appearances must obtain approval from her office...
...trial run at quarterback, is now at left half. He is only moderately fast, although he runs hard. Dave (Crazy Legs) Warden is the wing back and the powerful West, fullback. Jordan sorely needs a real breakaway back, a "gone with the wind" type of runner who could make the fullback a more potent threat by keeping the weak side defense constantly on the alert...