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...signers were: Henry D. Aiken, Gordon W. Allport, Thelma G. Alper, Robert F. Bales, Herschel Baker, Bart J. Bok, C. Crane Brinton, Jerome S. Bruner, John A. Ciardi, Albert S. Coolidge, Frederick B. Deknatel, John P. Elder, Merle Fainsod, Irving G. Fine, Wendell H. Furry, Myron P. Gilmore...
...signers are: John A. Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Policy, Emeritus; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; and Andre Morize, professor of French Literature...
Criticized on the grounds that he "writes to himself" in his war poetry, Ciardi frankly admits it. "Poetry has to deal with the immediate," he says, defending his method with the argument that every serviceman was thinking of the same things in personal terms. "There was more collective consciousness in the Army than in any other group," and yet, he admits a little ruefully, "you still can't reach across to anybody else...
From Michigan, the young poet traveled to a teaching job at Kansas City University. The call to Khaki followed almost immediately, and Ciardi spent four years in the Air Force. His second book of poems, "Other Skies," a personal record of the war years, was published last fall...
While in Missouri, where he returned briefly before coming to Harvard, Ciardi married a journalism teacher at KCU and started working with the Progressive Citizens of America, whose activities now take up much of his time. An executive member of the Massachusetts State Progressive Party, Ciardi believes that political issues are vital right here in the University. American colleges are on the road to a state of "military subsidization where there will be no freedom of speech and they won't be worth anything," be warns...