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...defender of Lady Chatterley's Lover, entered Novelist (The Screwtape Letters) C. S. Lewis. In the ensuing battle of Lewis v. Lewis, Starkie's man won the five-year post (which pays $840 a year), and in 1956 she was successful in putting across Poet W. H. Auden...
...schools, if they have not entirely abandoned the study of language. More work, however, remains to be done. What can the innocent reader make of the recent literary criticism without an entry under ANGST, SYNCRETIC, AMBIVALENCE, KITSCH Or ENAGEMENT, and how is he expected to follow W. H. Auden's recent criticism without the lowdown on CHARISMA...
...Damned Good Students." Ransom nursed the university press, started a lecture series that lures such literary lights as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. He also started the Texas Quarterly, which appears next month with an all-English issue featuring such authors as Henry Green and Angus Wilson, a cover by Punch Cartoonist Rowland Emmett. (An all-Texas issue is in the works...
Prospectus for Bankruptcy. Rushing forward in a field where Angel et al. were treading lightly (the survival rate of new record companies is less than 1%), Marianne and Barbara compiled a catalogue of releases that, to most merchandisers, read like a prospectus for bankruptcy-W. H. Auden declaiming Auden, Sir Ralph Richardson pacing gravely along Swann's Way, Faulkner grappling with his own syntax, an ailing Colette reading from her novels while the bed sheets rustled...
...with a new piece of modern music is to plead that it demands a second hearing. Last week Conductor Leonard Bernstein obliged. He led the New York Philharmonic through a performance of Lukas Foss's Time Cycle for Soprano and Orchestra, an atonal work based on poems by Auden, Housman, Kafka and Nietzsche, all of them having to do with the flow of time, clocks or bells. With Adele Addison expertly taking the vocal part, the work proved to be one of Foss's strongest-a mosaiclike structure full of wispily haunting sonorities. After playing the rest...