Word: cleanth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls from Vassar the transition involved other adjustments. The big name lecturer was decidedly new, and it took some time for one girl to get over the shock of Cleanth Brooks asking her in a soft southern drawl, "Are you happy at Yale...
Again I must say it is ironic: because Wilder was not content just to repeat what Tillich, Cleanth Brooks and others have been saying, because he did not proclaim the Gospel message to the existential situation, because he did not preach, he is condemned for failing to be "powerful and relevant...
...remainder of the magazine offers a variety of forms of criticism, Cleanth Brooks' essay on "Light in August" being especially noteworthy. An extended review of "Requiem for a Nun" by Albert Guerard seems to me the best that has appeared. Along other things, Guerard's passing reference to "Temple Drake's tragedy (which is that she is Temple Drake)" is a classic thumbnail sketch of the bitch-heroine...
Included in the issue will be work by Albert Guerard, Jr., associate professor of English, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. Others contributing are Conrad Aiken, Cleanth Brooks, Albert Camus, Carvel Collins, Leonard Doran, Pierre Emmanuel, Jerome Gavin, Alfred Kazin, Thomas Mann, and John Crowe Ransom...
...built the best philosophy department in the U.S. On the Yale faculty are men like fiery Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (Pinckney's Treaty; John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy); cherubic Composer Paul Hindemith; Botanist Paul Burkholder, who helped develop chloromycetin; Cleanth Brooks of the New Criticism; and Theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, brother of Reinhold, in the Divinity School...