Word: benet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things, in all honesty, cannot be ignored. The editors have contrived to fill up this issue with Death. Three out of four stories, two of four poems, tackle the old Reaper--and lose. Anabel Handy's story "Desire of a Fish," and the poems, by Adrienne Rich and Rachel Benet, deal with more lively themes, and come closest to effectiveness...
...poems suffer from the same lack of direction. In verse, of course, a poet can succeed by scratching just one image into your mind. But Signature's poets, possibly excepting Miss Benet, don't even do that. They simply fail to arouse, or to "make the reader care...
Died. John Milton Berdan, 75, longtime Yale professor of English (1903-41); of cerebral thrombosis; in New Haven, Conn. Credited with influencing many well-known writers (Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benet, Thornton Wilder) through his popular "Daily Themes" course, Berdan was consulted by Yalemen Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden before they founded TIME...
Died. Laurence Vincent Benet, 85, West Point-born manufacturer of the French Hotchkiss machine gun, uncle to Poets William Rose Benet and the late Stephen Vincent Benet; in Washington. Benet sold the Hotchkiss, which he perfected to fire 550 shots a minute, to all comers, but was touchy about his reputation as a "merchant of death," once reassured a visitor that "my fingers are not dripping blood this morning...
...Masses reappeared in 1918 as the Liberator. In 1926 it became New Masses, pledged to avoid "political affiliations or propaganda obligations." As late as 1936 it could get, for little or no money, such writers as Dreiser and Dos Passes, such poets as Millay and William Rose Benet, such artists as Gropper and Groth...