Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Anchored only to the graphs on the blackboard, Ec 1 floats freely in the realm of abstractions. If, as must be supposed, the course was intended to furnish a solid theoretical basis for the study of applied economics, it can only be regarded as a pleasant but thorough failure...
Alexis Léger, French poet (Anabase), for seven years the trusted brain of the French Foreign Office, was discovered in a Manhattan hotel, a refugee. His plans: to make a thorough study of the U. S., write his memoirs. Said he, looking pensively out over the city: "I am avoiding all publicity as well as social or political activities...
...first three poems, representing his recent work, are, of course, the better ones, but the reader new to Stevens should read the earlier poems first, in order to understand Stevens' thorough background in traditional metrical forms. Stevens' handling of the strait-laced sonnet form alone shows his power. Another thing to watch is his neat handling of dialogue in verse. He does this in Outside the Hospital. Then, after seeing the metrical artist at work, look at the holy handling of subject matter in The Beggar...
...best article to read before reading the poems is Theodore Spencer's Evaluations. This is easy reading and gets the point across. Schwartz provides more substantial stuff and is quite thorough, stimulating many ideas. His article is carefully organized, and even a cursory examination of the magazine should include a fairly thorough reading of his passages on Thoroughness and The Fate of Society. Baker's comments could be applied to poetry in general today. Zabel analyses well the imagery in Stevens' poetry, while Finch concludes that Stevens is a real American poet in spite of the general howl that...
...denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education, all colleges being closed to her." (Last week it was reported at the Congress that 4,000,000 U. S. girls were in high school, 500,000 in college...