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...epic of introspection, The Waste Land, has for years been considered the representative poem of the modern age. The Grand National for winged steeds has not been run for some time, but there are signs that poets may be tuning up their mounts for more than the usual private canter. Critics who hardly raised their eyes at Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body began to look alive when Archibald MacLeish's Conquistador appeared. Though Poets Brewer, Hill and Stuart will cause little commotion among the critics, to plain readers they will be a further indication that narrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arma Virumque | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

Donald F. Wilcock 4ES, president; Joseph J. Gianino 3NS, vice president; Milton D. Rubin 3ES, secretary; and Eliot D. Canter 3ES, treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineering Elections | 6/8/1934 | See Source »

...calm tenor of his daily life. Maintaining the burning interest in all varieties of subjects which has caused him to write books on everything from Hypnotism and Suicide to Marxism and the problem of small European nations, he still reads voluminously in four languages. He loves a brisk canter on horseback, or a romp with his small grandsons, children of Charles Revilliod, who only a few years ago used to play naked as jays in the gardens of the presidential summer palace near Prague. Receiving reporters last week Grandfather Masaryk admitted that Willa Gather was his favorite author and added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Old Father | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

Announcement of the election of its 1934-35 officers was made last night by the Harvard Menorah Society. Those elected are: Eliot D. Canter '35, President; Herbert Tobin '35, Vice-President; William Maltzman '35, Secretary; Edgar I. Epstein '35, Treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Menorah Elections | 2/20/1934 | See Source »

...last week Sweetheart on Parade faced such potent mounts as Bell Lee Rose, Roger Selby's stallion King Genius, American Dream, Lady of Lexington. Time and again the judges had them go through their tricks of changing nimbly from walk to running walk to rack to trot to canter at the slightest touch of the rider's finger on the rein. Sweetheart on Parade stepped flawlessly, again took the blue ribbon-the last she will ever win under saddle. Henceforth Mrs. Roth will use her in harness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses at Chicago | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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