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...Kellogg, Episcopalian; January 26, Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Presbyterian; January 27, Rev. Leonard G. Clough, Congregational; January 28, Rev. D. J. Fitzpatrick, Roman Catholic; January 31, Rev. Hobart F. Goewey, Methodist; February 2, Rev. Irving R. Murray, Unitarian; February 3, Rev. Edmund A. Steimle, Lutheran; February 4, Judah J. Shapiro, Hillel Foundation...
...Copyright 1927 by Shapiro, Bernstein...
...Shapiro's comments on the American scene are remarkably fresh and versatile, touch on such matters of general interest as haircuts, Buick cars, street accidents, the Washington Cathedral, army camps, the housefly, Hollywood. Shapiro describes American democracy with the satirical gusto of an outcast who feels he is in the know about what it is really like...
...self-satisfaction about being in the know, while giving his poetry confidence and verve, unfortunately cancels it out as a remedial criticism of American life. In some of his later poems Shapiro seems to be trying, by writing in an unreticent personal vein, to escape from his sophistication. The results are at best ingenuous, at worst maudlin...
Compared with Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, formerly a tennis-playing English teacher at the University of Texas, now in the Army Air Forces, writes like a spoiled darling. But, though Jarrell has suffered neither social nor economic disabilities, he makes a moving protest against the world of his time. Some of the lyrics in Blood for a Stranger register the pain of human guilt as it has seldom been registered in American poetry. He writes...