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...STAR CALLED WORMWOOD (250 pp ) - Martha Bacon- Random House...
Miss Moore, who prefaced her brief reading with random remarks on the qualities that characterize a good poet, was introduced by Professor F. O. Matthiessen...
...said that Mr. Amory's article is almost incredibly pompous. It is. If the above examples don't do double duty and convince you of the article's pompousness, pick out a paragraph at random and start to read...
...Houses would be a series of informal bull and beer sessions. At first no big name experts would be called in to cow the undergraduate talkers. Tutors and graduate students might be invited, but only on the understanding that they stimulate rather than scare off the random thoughts of the other members. Some alert House secretary might announce an enticing subject one or twice a week--or, if all went well, several subjects for several talk teams. And if the matter of the meeting veered from the Vandalian invasions to the Politbureau to the delayed buck, that would...
...lacked a classic youth's magazine since the death of St. Nicholas (peak circ. 100,000) in 1939 and Youth's Companion (500,000) in 1929. But the best of the late, lamented St. Nick, edited by Historian Henry Steele Commager, will be published this month by Random House...