Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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EXCEPT for a group of three short poems by Marvin Barrett and the usual reviews (of which Frederick Jacobi's musical criticism is to be praised), the new Advocate consists entirely of fiction. The scope of the whole is narrow, but the variety of the fiction is great. This has not always been true: too often the Advocate has reflected a single and special set of interests and tastes...
...Marvin Barrett's three related poems are entitled " Vacation Excursions." Of these, the first is as good as anything he has published in the are less impressive because, in spite of occasional past, perhaps better. The second and third parts brilliant lines, they depend too much on general statement and generalized diction; but who would complain of this...
...perhaps partial to Mr. Barrett's eccentric wit. But the Advocate, after all, is most palatable when it is witty, least palatable when it broods, or stews about in its own thin juices. There is very little stewing in the present issue, and an exceptional proportion of distinguished writing...
Judson T. Shaplin, Anthropology; Benjamin H. Landing, Jr., Biology; Robert A. Keller, Bio-Chemistry; Melvin Fields, Jr., Chemistry; Howard C. Bennett, Jr., Classics; Eli Goldston. Economics; William F. Rottschaefer, Engineering Sciences; Marvin G. Barrett, English; Thomas B. A. Godfrey, Fine Arts; Benjamin F. Whitehill, Geological Sciences...
...year it was produced, Barrett Clark wrote: "This play, as far as conception is concerned, is the most subtly beautiful work O'Neill has ever written." And, in a letter to Professor Packard, who was assistant stage manager in the original production, O'Neill himself said: "It is very near and dear to me--(I'm not sure it isn't the best beloved of them...