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Today Author Read, like many of his more thoughtful contemporaries, is a strange but balanced composite-man-an admirer of both Chinese philosophy and surrealism, an atheist with a yen for mystical writing, an advanced thinker who sees his old-fashioned childhood as "an age of unearthly bliss," a romantic "anarchist" who insists that "we must not assume that art and machinery are mutually exclusive, but experiment until we discover a machine art." As art critic and esthetic philosopher, Read is erudite and discerning; as a writer, he is precise and dry, so that his prose shows at its best...
Returning to the University, where he had been influenced further by the literary-classic trio of "Kitty," "Copey," and Bliss, Professor Whiting immersed himself in graduate work. He became an assistant and Tutor in English and attained the rank of full professor last December. The author of numerous books on Chaucer, his specialty, and dissertations on the proverb as an expression of folk thought, Professor Whiting looks on his lone venture in anthology work with horror. "I'll never do anything like that again," he says of his co-editorship of the College Survey of English Literature, which includes most...
...name will always be linked through the years with the "triumvirate of American letters" at the turn of the century, the other two members being George Lyman Kittredge of his graduating class at Harvard, and now-deceased Bliss Perry, Francis Higginson Professor of English Literature...
...month ago Arthur Bliss Lane returned to the U.S. from the hardest assignment of his 31 years in the Foreign Service. As Ambassador to the Russian-dominated government of Poland he could remember little but frustration. So that he would be free to speak as a private citizen on Poland's "tragedy," tired Arthur Lane resigned. Last week Harry Truman picked his successor. Warsaw was in for something. The new Ambassador will be 59-year-old Stanton Griffis...
Founder of the Industrial Relations Council of Greater Boston, Bliss has been Chairman of the executive committee since its inception. At General Electric, he holds the post of District Manager...