Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moral Responsibility of the Scientist" will be debated at a Law Forum Friday by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Norbert Wiener of M.I.T., Lean Sxilard of the University of Chicago, and Henry D. Aiken '40, associate professor of Philosophy. Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, will preside at the meetings at 8 p.m. in Rindge Tech...
Ideal & Reality. Though his reputation has been largely based on his poetry, Aiken may well be remembered most for his short stories. In his latest book he has brought together 29 of them; the result is an impressive handful of fiction...
Almost half of the stories are wry, faintly bitter variations on the theme of betrayed love. Men, implies Aiken, are unable to live up to their own romantic ideals, and from the tension between ideal and reality comes much of their misery. Through weakness and self-indulgence, Aiken's characters repeatedly destroy the love that promises them happiness: a man who loves a young girl lets himself be snared by the flattery of a more sophisticated woman; a nurse who knows all the shabbiness of her employer allows him to dominate...
...Edge of Sanity. The best of Aiken's stories deal not so much with betrayed love, however, as with those strange happenings which take place on the edge of human consciousness and sanity...
...masterpiece of the collection is Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow, a terrifying portrait of a twelve-year-old boy who escapes from his real world to a daydream world of falling snow, then loses the real world completely in the ever-narrowing dreams of schizophrenia. It has long been an anthology piece, should long continue...