Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each of the twelve stories in Conrad Aiken's latest volume of short stories, "Among the Lost People," is a different application of the above quotation from "Gehenna," the twelfth, which depicts the hell through which the human mind goes to find "consciousness which is pure suffering." The tales are told with an implacable, pseudo-scientific introspectiveness that almost suggests Poe. They are tales of madness, weakness, and failure--of a man half-drunk who succumbs to the temptation to steal some unwanted object is caught, and his life is ruined. ("Impulse"): pathetic souls who laugh insincerely or tell unimportant...
...Silent Snow, Secret Snow," Mr. Aiken gives a picture of an adolescent mind dwelling more and more in the realm of fantasy until the real world is finally obliterated. "Thistledown" is a very simply told story of a girl whose life is as "aimless and purposeless as the voyage of the dandelion thistle...
...Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan, Philadelphia lawyer, professor of international law at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Lawyer Morris' style is cramped because he was distinctly not a "For Roosevelt Before Chicago" man. Widest primary breach exists between Governor Pinchot and David Aiken Reed, fighting to succeed himself as Pennsylvania's senior Republican Senator. Before taking to the hustings, Mr. Reed had fortified himself in the Senate by embracing the American Legion's entire veterans' program. But his main issue was the unimaginative Republican one of anti-New Dealism...
...Park Avenue, Lady meets wealthy young Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), who falls for her and pursues her everywhere, even after she goes to jail for the crooked dealings of her syndicate. Finally she marries him, only to find he has been mixed up in an affair with Shella Aiken (Claire Dodd). Meanwhile Lady Lee again becomes entangled with her former employer in the syndicate. Mutual jealousy arises; and after an incidental trial for murder and a highly dramatic card game between Lady and Shella, Lady divorces Madison because it is the only way she can save him from a false...
Died. Le Baron Russell Briggs, 79, longtime Harvard clean & English professor; suddenly, of a heart ailment; while visiting his daughter in Milwaukee. Famed as a teacher of writing, he taught: Earl Derr Biggers, E. E. Cummings, Joseph Auslander, John Dos Passes, Frederick Lewis Allen, Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley...