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...program was provocative: four works by four U.S. composers, three of whom are little known. Bennington College's Louis Calabro was represented by the premiere of his Sonata for Piano; Brooklyn College's Josef Alexander offered his Songs for Eve; Hall Overton, composition teacher, presented his String Quartet. To round it off and set a frame of reference, Princeton's well-known Composer Roger Sessions was there with his Sonata for Violin...
...story picks up Eddie at the point where he has become so good a hustler that only the biggest man in pool stands between him and the top. Minnesota Fats makes his headquarters at Bennington's in Chicago. In Eddie's world, Fats's name is spoken with reverence. Huge, lardy and gross. Fats plays with the grace of a virtuoso. Eddie takes him on, and for 40 hours they match their delicate skills. At one point Eddie is $18,000 ahead, and the great Fats seems to have met his master. But it is Eddie...
...whose moods can range from desperate gaiety to black despondency, Roethke works slowly and painfully. This collection includes 34 new poems, written over the course of five years. Included is a series of love poems, a kind of epithalamium to his young wife, who was his student at Bennington. They are reminiscent in their intensity, in their bemused exploration of the interplay of passion and spiritual love, of the poems of John Donne...
Reed (570 students) and Bennington (309 students) keep grades but do not communicate them to students, using conferences to inform students about the quality of their work...
...episode hit the headlines, and there was at least one facetious reference to Pearl Harbor. It was all so embarrassing that the Royal Australian Navy felt obliged to announce that, of course, the United States Navy had known about the gag and simply played along. The men of the Bennington knew better, but decided to take their humiliation in stride. They collected $1,800 for the boys' charity and handed it over to Sydney's Lord Mayor Harry Jensen. His lordship was most grateful-and most sympathetic. After all, on the same day another group of students...