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...shortest story of the issue, Catherine Dawson's Stefan is the sketch of a sewing plant worker. In its repetition and harsh conclusion, Stefan resembles the stories of Sherwood Anderson, sometimes enough so as to seem affected. Written with economy and a great care for words, however, Stefan is a good story because it seems to matter...
Harris also announced the appointment of Stefan Valavanis as assistant professor in Economics...
...Return to the Homeland. Most have been Czechs, who have the shortest distance to travel, and most have been refugees cooled off by the two-year D.P. camp detention which is all but automatic for escapees from the East. Last week on Poland's Radio Homeland, one Stefan Michalsky." onetime Voice of America announcer, took to the air to say the Vistula never looked lovelier, and to urge "engineers working with a spade, and starving teachers living on scanty benefits in Western Germany" to join him "at home, where work awaits...
...measured against his contemporaries in the German language-Gerhart Hauptmann, Rilke, Kafka, Stefan Zweig et al.-Mann was still a giant. And against charges that he was "Olympian," "pompous," "ponderous," he could well defend himself: "My endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...
...Lowell: Stefan S. Anderson, Edgar D. Aronson, David M. Dorsen, Gary Gathman, John R. Green, James P. Jorgensen, Cliff F. Thompson...