Word: ciardi
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...teachers are Professors Mather, Shapley, Chafee, Ciardi, Harris, and Schlesinger, Jr. All but Harris appeared on the list of "Reducators" publicly field this week by the Cambrdige City Council...
Clark said that the University would not consider disciplining Shapley and Ciardi for their political actions. He said this would be an abrogation of Harvard's "basic tradition of freedom," and that the University could not be induced to depart from this tradition "by any fear that gifts will be withheld...
...alumnus was Frank B. Ober, former chairman of the Maryland Commission on Subversive Activities, which proposed Maryland's anti-"subversive" legislation. Ober complained that two Harvard faculty members--Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, and John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition--were "giving aid and comfort to Communism...
Shapley had headed the World Peace Conference in New York and Ciardi had participated in Progressive Party opposition to the Maryland legislation...
...Themes. Two of the best in Editor Ciardi's collection are Robert Lowell 33 and Delmore Schwartz, 36. Lowell, an' old-family New Englander whose natural taste for rebellion led him to Roman Catholicism and then to pacifism and jail for evading the draft, writes richly rhetorical verses in which he is not afraid to work with the old human themes-death, war and ambition. Schwartz, a Brooklyn poet on whom the experience of Jewish immigrant life has left an indelible mark of irony, writes poems that are calculatedly flat, wry and witty...