Word: allston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Named to positions not on the executive board were Joseph B. Smith '44, of Lowell House and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Charles W. Young '44, of Cambridge, as Assistant Editorial Chairmen; and Edward J. Casey '44, of Allston, as Local Advertising Manager...
...most important book of criticism was F. O. Matthiessen's exhaustive study of The American Renaissance ($5). More stimulating, when it was not making calf's-eyes at bathos, was Edward Dahlberg's violent Do These Bones Live ($3). Van Wyck Brooks (The Opinions of Oliver Allston; $3) was the year's prime example of one who, in the frenzy of his search for saving values, leaped before he looked, with both hands clamped to his eyes. His yoking of "optimistic" Thomas Mann and Whittier as "primary" artists, and his belittling with "self-interest" of such...
...comments on communism and socialism are perhaps the poorest section of the volume; the discussion of purely literary topics is the best. Allston's (alias Brooks) belief that fascism is scarcely an important topic in surveying the American mind and that a sort of Arthurian joy of combat is much stronger than economic determinism in directing human activities seems somewhat dated at this time. In the literary sections Brooks preaches, as he has already done in several previous volumes that, "Literature has been out on a branch. We must return to the trunk." By which he means that modern writers...
...first time since Clint Frank led his star-studded Yale team into the Stadium in 1937, the Allston arena is expected to have over 50,000 onlookers for today's game, the twenty-seventh Harvard-Army affair on the books...
...Army, plays twelve auxiliaries, will arrive a Allston at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and roll through a work-out in the Stadium beginning at 3:45. From there they will head for the Belmont Country Club where they will spend the night...