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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Frost's most recent work will scarcely add to the controversy as to his place in American letters. "The Witness Tree," the author's first publication in six years, gives the impression that Frost considers his work complete and is ready to leave the rough hewn bench for the easy chair of age and reputation...
...apologia pro arte sua should be, and about as impartial as an epitaph. He brings up the old notion that Beethoven and the Romantics were too "subjective" and personal, while the new music has to "grapple" with the objective problem of the times. Of course, he hastens to add, the old devices of melody, rhythm and strong feeling are still used, only "extended and enriched" and made more "objective." All this is reassuring reading but a hard pill to swallow, inasmuch as the radical moderns seemed to have failed through their very refusal to "grapple" with any basic emotional problems...
Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer boasted last week that, if they were needed, Spain would add 1,000,000 men to the Spanish Blue Division of 20,000 already sent to fight beside the Nazis in Russia. Russian sources recently claimed that 350 of those boys in blue had been sent back from Germany with venereal disease, 800 had deserted after an 850-mile march, mostly by foot, from Berlin to Novgorod, more than 8,000 had been killed on Russian soil...
...Rudman, who has allowed only one run in the 14 innings he has been on the mound, will try to add to his string of 10 scoreless frames when he takes the hill for the Yardling nine this afternoon at Milton Academy...
...significant subject matter, this poem must rank among Stevens' most important and best. A delightfully impudent bit of subtle artistry, "The Wood Weasel," has been contributed by Marianne Moore, while Conrad Aiken, Frederic Prokosch, and John Brinnin are represented by pieces which, though not their best work, will add to this issue's appeal...