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...Charles Brower, president, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn advertising agency L.H.D...
...there will be no trouble in maintaining full employment no matter what happens to defense spending. Until we return to full employment all the economists and planning offices in the world will be unable to convince our workers and industrialists that disarmament poses no serious threats to them. Michael Brower, Instructor, School of Industrial Management, M.I.T...
Until Steele Commager's The Odes of Horace is published next week, it will still be possible to say that the best work on Horace is Reuben Brower's study of Alexander Pope's ancient models. Commager is the first classical scholar to attempt a close reading of the odes along modern lines, and he has succeeded brilliantly. (I omit from consideration Collinge's turgid and mechanical new book on structure in the odes...
Commager's book presupposes a reader, and it leads him to a fuller and more enlightened understanding of Horace's style. Solidly based on the research of previous generations, The Odes of Horace incorporates the critical methods of such men as I. A. Richards and Reuben Brower, men who believe that poetry should be approached on its own terms. As Commager remarks: "The ideas work not merely 'with' but 'in' and 'through' Horace's specific language. If we change any element of his language a different idea remains--or no idea at all. To speak of a lyric poet...
...Brower believe that this experiment proves the survival value of mimicry for insects that are able to make themselves sound, look or act like less attractive relatives. But they think that the robber fly may get a second advantage from its resemblance to the bumblebee...