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...literary Lowry was founded on poetic rather than narrative talents. He was heavily influenced by the complex psychological lyricism of Conrad Aiken. Poet Aiken was to become Lowry's friend, surrogate father and even baby sitter. At one stage Lowry's father, worried about his son's disorderly ways, hired Aiken at $100 a month to keep an eye on Malcolm...
...opened his shop with 2800 books he had accumulated as a student, and ran it until his death. The Grolier, which specialized in poetry, was one of the last of the cafes for literati. Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsburg, James Tate Robert Bly '50, Conrad Alken '11, Robert Graves and Richard Wilbur often frequented the cozy one-room shop...
...Wagnerian overtones. It is staged in Monument Valley, whose landscapes of eerie majesty have graced many a John Ford film. The camera tracks slowly back along the white divider line of the highway for minute upon minute, while a rock group intones a suitable overorchestrated threnody. Here and throughout, Conrad Hall's photography is resourceful but a little fancy. Like Guercio, he seems more concerned with embellishing a scene than getting at its essence...
SIDDHARTHA is set in the India of 25 centuries ago, but it has the contemporary familiarity of a quickie weekend at Esalen. Hermann Hesse's novel has been adapted with stuporous devotion by Conrad Rooks, who in 1967 unleashed Chappaqua, a shambling phantasmagoria of the hallucinatory world of alcoholism and drug addiction. His skills have become no sharper in the intervening years. Siddhartha (Shashi Kapoor), as any campus sophomore would know, spends the better part of his lifetime beating the bushes in search of spiritual insight and fulfillment. It is a hard job achieving nirvana, and seems to require...
...Died. Conrad Aiken, 84, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet; of a heart attack; in Savannah, Ga. A close friend and Harvard classmate of T.S. Eliot's, Aiken began publishing poems in 1914. Influenced by both Sigmund Freud and Harvard Philosopher George Santayana, Aiken searched in his poetry and prose for musical and psychological truth -an effort resulting in rich mental atmospheres but lacking in drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction...