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When word of the floggings got out, the Denver Post cried "savage." Governor Dan Thornton hurried to Canon City to investigate. Best, a former president of the Wardens of America Association, was not afraid of the governor or anybody else. Said he: "I have used [the strap and wooden horse] through nine governors and I'll keep on using them, unless I'm specifically ordered to abandon them by the governor. I don't like to whip another human being. But these five men were dangerous. If they had been able to escape and free...
...Though Thornton Wilder is best known as a Pulitzer Prizewinning author of twelve novels and plays (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth), he has also pursued a second career over the course of 30 years. As a teacher, he has Cone from Lawrenceville School to the University of Chicago, and finally this year to Harvard, "continually drawing comparisons, not between institutions, but comparisons between something far more striking and instructive-comparisons between attitudes, tacit assumptions, the thought world of students that I have known throughout the decades of my teachings." At Harvard...
Castration fears and mother complexes explain nothing about "Moby Dick," Thornton Wilder told an audience of 500 in his last Charles Eliot Norton lecture last night in Sanders Theatre...
...Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will give the final lecture of the series included in his appointment, at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. The subject of the lecture will be "The American Characteristics of Classical American Literature: Melville and the Real and the Forged Ambiguities...
After a reading of the Student Council's report on theatrical conditions here by Warren Brody '53, head of the committee that studied the problem, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton, Professor of Poetry, and Donald Oenslager '23, instructor in drama at Yale, discussed the place of a theatre here...