Word: cleanthes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Their paradoxical benefactor was Louisiana's Huey Long, who had simpler notions of salvation. From the millions lavished by Huey to endow Louisiana State University with a nonpareil stadium, football team and campus, three ex-Rhodes scholars, named Robert Penn Warren, then 29, Cleanth Brooks Jr., 28, and Charles W. Pipkin, 35, managed in 1935 to get a cut of $10,000 a year for a quarterly review...