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...according to Novelist Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited, the smart Oxford undergraduate ate plovers' eggs, read T. S. Eliot, drove a Morris-Cowley two-seater, might even carry a pet Teddy bear around with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smarties | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...hundred and twenty-five people, especially invited to the meeting, heard five speakers testify on what chairman Malcolm Cowley '20 called Matthiessen's "achievements as a critic and scholar and his warmth as a human being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Authors, Editors Laud Matthiessen In N.Y. Meeting | 6/7/1950 | See Source »

...five were Cowley, author and editor; John Clardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; Muriel Rukeyser, poetess; Matthew Josephson, historian; and Alfred Kazin, author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Authors, Editors Laud Matthiessen In N.Y. Meeting | 6/7/1950 | See Source »

...Cowley told the CRIMSON last night that the meeting had been scheduled because of the "feeling of several people that Matthiessen's death should not be allowed to pass by just with the comments of the Boston papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Authors, Editors Laud Matthiessen In N.Y. Meeting | 6/7/1950 | See Source »

...speech at Freedom House, Cowley said that he did not think that Matthiessen's suicide was the result of political persecution. "He had too much strength to be killed off by a columnist," the chairman stated. He added, however, that he thought the world tensions referred to in the professor's death note had helped to bring about Matthiessen's depressed state of mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Authors, Editors Laud Matthiessen In N.Y. Meeting | 6/7/1950 | See Source »

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