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Most of Europe's major critics and a big-name-studded audience (Poet W. H. Auden, Composer Francis Poulenc et al.) braved a motorboat strike and journeyed by gondola to Venice's 450-year-old Scuola di San Rocco, one of Italy's famed Renaissance religious schools, for the fall's most eagerly awaited musical event. In hushed expectation, beneath a Tintoretto ceiling, they watched 76-year-old Igor Stravinsky, with a clawlike motion of his right hand, launch the orchestra into the premiere of his latest work. What followed was some of the finest...
...choice existed for Henry James, T.S. Eliot and Auden," he writes, and it still exists today, but the ultimate criterion for a permanent ocean hop is neither political nor financial. "If the U.S. were really sitting pretty, as unchallengeably at the peak of its power as England was, say, in 1830, with 50 invulnerable years as Top Nation ahead, then I should passionately envy American writers. But I do not see their position in those terms at all; I believe that essentially we are in the same boat...
...Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production of A Fable and The Town. Also editor of Sherwood Anderson, James Michener, Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Robinson Jeffers, Budd Schulberg and Irwin Shaw, Commins long directed Random House's Modern Library series, also assembled the Selected Writings of Washington Irving (1945), Selected Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson (1947), Basic Writings of George Washington (1948), Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952), and (with Robert...
...instead of only $11,500. He put through a rule that all students with a below-C average would be put on probation, even though that meant one-fourth of the student body. He started a lecture series that brings to Texas such celebrities as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. The university now has a thriving press, and next month it will have a scholarly quarterly...
...which the mystical names of James Russell Lowell, Bliss Perry, Ellery Sedgwick, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and William Dean Howells figure as editors, the issue goes on to new material by past contributors. Frost, Marquand, Hemingway, Thurber, Berenson, Morison, Isak Dinesen, President Conant, Jung, Slichter, Niebuhr, Osbert and Edith Sitwell, Auden, Wilder, McGinley, R. P. Lister, and the late Max Beerbohm march with deserved pomp and circumstance through the table of contents...