Word: claimed
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Among U. S. literary groups, the writers who have settled in New Mexico have a reputation for being the most humorless of the lot. But in Witter Bynner New Mexico can claim at least one poet who knows and appreciates a joke, and who has the distinction of being the author of a major literary hoax. In 1916 when U. S. excitement over free verse, imagism, vorticism, and other strange movements was red hot. Author Bynner, in collaboration with Arthur Davison Ficke, dashed off a few nonsensical poems, signed them with a pseudonym, "Emanuel Morgan," declared them expressions...
...treated in sufficient detail but is less important than the following divisions of political, economic, and social life of the country and foreign relations. Each unit is developed from the early period to the present with only a few necessary tie-ins with the other units. The author's claim that such organization helps the younger student to better grasp the subject without the usual confusion which a purely chronological story presents. But for our purpose, its great value is in dividing problems in a way which will help as a handy reference in writing papers...
Such fantastic sensationalism of theme invalidates any claim of the author's to represent life as it is lived, except, of course, in the paranoiac's dream world, which is admittedly the level of reality with which the Surrealist painters and writers are concerned. As it happens, most of the critical enthusiasm for Mr. Caldwell's work has been devoted less to defending his "realism" than to pointing out the beauties of his style. There is no denying the hypnotic effect which the rhythmic dialogue of the mental defectives in "Tobacco Road," in its stage version, exercises on the spectator...
...Auslander's chief claim to "newspaper fame," may be that his wife has just won the Pulitzer Prize. That is, however, not by a league his chief claim to fame in the minds of those who have followed American poetry for years and have its best interests at heart. His chief claim to fame lies in his own work-and I say this as one who has just written a short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush. . . . Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet...
...House closes today as soon as the shells can be crated for New London. In the last row yesterday the Varsity, stroked by Ed Simmons, appeared to be going well and Coach Whiteside says that the seatings will remain unchanged. The Blue crew has a record which backs their claim of being one of the best crews in the East, but Whiteside promises to start a hard-rowing crew...