Word: album
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Critic Lloyd Frankenberg started with a good idea. He would write a plain-spoken book to "provide a bridge to modern poetry for readers . . . brought up on prose." And since "poetry is an art of the ear's discrimination," he would persuade a record company to issue an album of readings by the poets discussed in his book. The result: this batch of essays on modern poetry and an identically titled album (Columbia, 8 sides, $4.95; or LP, $4.85) of readings by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas and other modern poets...
...Records. The album of records accompanying Frankenberg's book is good & bad in about the same proportions as the book itself. Unfortunately, poets are not necessarily the best readers of their work. Poetess Moore reads her verse as if she had just been frightened by a ferocious rabbit, Poetess Elizabeth Bishop as if she were a bored high-school sophomore, Poet Cummings as if he were an English gentleman slightly repelled by his own rowdy verses, and Poet-Physician William Carlos Williams as if he were droning out a prescription for a head cold...
Browsing around the Square, with an eye out for anything interesting, may be an easier way out. The Krockodiloes album, a book of Abner Dean or Charles Adams cartoons are pretty good possibilities...
While the '46 Album is hastening to join the '47-'48 Album in the better-late-than-never department, the '49 Album, a veritable tyro in the field, has announced a tentative publication date of April 1, 1950. April Fool's Day being what it is, however, there is no reason to expect any new speed records in Album production...
...this calls attention to the next entry, the '50 publication. There is more hope here, though. The Council has shrewdly plucked the album portfolio away from the annual class committees and handed it over to a permanent self-producing group which hopes eventually to achieve independent status. The Council also agreed to make the thing a yearbook, aimed at all classes rather than an album confined to seniors...