Word: brainwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a kind of "intellectual" poetry that the everyday reader is right in never bothering his head about; if he did, he would find it about as unrewarding after study as before. But there is another kind that, like differential calculus and other forms of honest brainwork, has a permanent beauty worth a closer look. Of all living writers, none has done more as a critic to keep this distinction clear or more as a poet to illustrate it than bush-bearded, 42-year-old Englishman William Empson, who now lives by choice in Peiping. For years Empson...
After ten days of reading the heavy brainwork of fifty Harvard entrants, Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe '49, said in a small voice last night that entries for the contest to name her pet project, an unborn literary magazine for 'Cliffedwellers, were now officially closed...
...European Advisory Commission's first big job-a chart for dividing conquered Germany among U.S., British, Russian occupation armies-was practically finished last week. Five months of brainwork in London had produced a tentative, deceptively simple plan...
Lady of Mzensk. One mystery Biographer Seroff's book goes a long way toward solving is the maze of Slavic ideological brainwork that lay behind the sensational blacklisting of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the District of Mzensk in 1936. The close connection in the Soviet mind between musical and political technique will probably never be completely fathomed by non-Russians. But looked at by Russians, the downfall of Lady Macbeth had a certain logic about...