Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve o'clock: if you don't have to knock off early for lunch, try Aiken's Philosophy 167--Contemporary Ethics--in Emerson F. Definitely not a course for dilettantes, this one takes up several modern philosophers and requires solid grounding in both Philosophy and Psychology...
There are a few interesting selections in this Advocate anthology. A story by Howard Nemerov, some of the poems by Conrad Aiken and others, and the introduction by editor Hall are worth reading. But for the most part there seems to have been little reason for collecting the effluvia of adolescence even if it did forerun greatness...
...turned up to bid them goodbye. As a token of esteem for the man who ran for President in 1948 on the Dixiecrats' states' rights program, the friends brought along a shiny new Cadillac and five crisp $100 bills to help the Thurmonds set up housekeeping at Aiken. "I'm floored," said the ex-governor. Thurmond planned to practice law, said he was not sure whether he would stay in politics. But some of his admirers were not so doubtful. Said Thurmond's friend Leon Moore, ex-mayor of Spartanburg: "None of [us] figure...
Stories, poetry, and articles are presented by such writers as T. S. Eliot '10, E. E. Cummings '15, Wallace Stevens '01, Walter Edmonds '26, Conrad Aiken '11, Malcolm Cowley '19, James Gould Cozzens '26, and Norman Mailer...
...five: Vermont's Aiken, North Dakota's Langer, Oregon's Morse, Maine's Mrs. Smith and New Jersey's Alexander Smith. Five others abstained from voting; ten were absent...