Word: bogan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorker review by Louise Bogan is perhaps the most dangerous, since it comes from someone who should know better. "Berryman is out to get language itself, to distort and maim it, not in the direction of wit but in the direction of funny grammar and burnt-cork comedy." She accuses him of "pulling human speech toward some totally disjunct and invertebrate set of noises." Such a reaction betrays a tin ear and a wooden sense of humor, for the dream songs may be one of the more successful experiments with wit in the language. The poem, taken as the whole...
...last Goethe's long relegation to librarefied limbo may be ending. In 1962, Poet W. H. Auden published a handsome translation of his Italian Journey. In 1963, Poetess Louise Bogan collaborated with Elizabeth Mayer on a readable resetting of Elective Affinities. Poet Louis MacNeice, before his death, released a version of Faust that is uniformly the finest in the language. And Poets Robert Lowell, Stephen Spender and Randall Jarrell are all hard at work on English versions of Goethe's verse...
...Engineers held its annual congress in Detroit last week, it could boast some top men as members: General Motors President John Gordon and G.M. Group Vice President Edward Cole are both engineers; so are four of Cole's five division vice presidents and Chrysler Vice President B. W. Bogan. The huge, complex auto companies are still marshaled by financial experts but, says Don Frey, "there are more engineers in management positions now than in the entire postwar period." And, like Frey and lacocca, they are getting closer...
...Boycott? But planned integration of the classrooms has not proceeded without white opposition. Last month Chicago finally agreed to experimental "clusters" of schools that draw students from white and Negro neighborhoods. When the plan's author, University of Chicago Sociologist Philip M. Hauser, visited the city's Bogan district to explain the project, he was greeted by 200 white pickets, who hooted and cursed him from the audience. In riot-rocked Philadelphia, the school board plans to bus Negroes from overcrowded slum schools to white schools that are half-empty as a result of a big Roman Catholic...
Stephen A. Aaron '57, assistant director of the Loeb Drama Center and director of "Hammer," learned Bogan's part immediately and took over his role for the entire run of the show...