Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awards of this Committee in the field of literature, within the past few years have been blind and undiscriminating. This year's choices were no exception. Despite the approving babble of occupants of University chairs in poetics on its announcement, the poetry award went to a woman, a sort of minor Edna Millay, whose poems are completely negligible. They are readable and sufficiently sentimental to be a popular choice; they have a certain dexterity and gloss, often substituted for technical superiority and thought, easily overcoming the defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble...
Three students were decorated during the review, Albert S. Novak '41, receiving the award for first year men, Arnold S. Gale '40, for second year men, and Donald L. Daughters '39, for third year men. The medals won by Novak and Gale were given by the Sons of the American Revolution...
Biography. The award for distinguished U. S. biography was divided between: Odell Shepard for Pedlar's Progress, The Life of Bronson Alcott (TIME, May 10), $300, and former Pulitzer Prizewinner Marquis James for his two volumes on Andrew Jackson (TIME, April...
...Naturally I am most interested in the Poetry award," he continued. "I have long admired the poetry of Marya Zaturensky who won the poetry award for her volume entitled "Cold Morning Sky," and I am pleased to see it get the reception it deserves...
Hillyer believed that the biography award "was a good choice." As for the drama award Hillyer declared "For my part I am glad that "Our Town" won the drama prize instead of "Of Mice and Men" which seems to me overrated...