Word: craning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princeton man has softened up the Japanese language. Using a formula of poker-playing days in college,* balding Burton Crane, 41 (Princeton ex-'22), invented a card game which he claims will teach a speaking knowledge of Japanese (a vocabulary of 800 words) in ten sessions. His game smashes to smithereens collegiate par for the course: 18 months...
...Nathalia Crane, famed child-poet of the late '20s, joined the faculty of Manhattan's Hunter College, as a lecturer on "rhythm, meter, rime, tone color, diction, imagery, emotion and imagination in poetry." Now 28, she declared: "It's the first time any poet has had a chance to divulge all the secrets of poetry in a classroom...
...George B. Sohier Prize of $250, for the best honors thesis in English or Modern Literature, was divided between Mrs. Sibyilo O. Crane, Radcliffe '42, of Cambridge, Mass., for her thesis "Heinrich Heine: Critic of Political and Social Ideas in France under the July Monarchy"; and Frederic G. Ranney, Jr. '42, of London, England, for his thesis, "Alien Plain: A Study of Primitive Feeling in Rudyard Kipling's Verse...
Technically in the tradition of Hart Crane and Whitman, these poems rely almost entirely upon the forceful phrase for their effect. Brinnin displays an unparalled gift for shaping the everyday word into a biting, meaningful symbol, and the use of sharp contrast adds force to this verse. If his meter seems colorless, it must be remembered that many of these poems were designed for the use of creative dance groups and thus gain force if read aloud. One may hope that in the future Mr. Brinnin's metrical talent will develop alongside his gift for the phrase, and that...
...exile had grown from a handful of 10,000 men to an army of ever 100,000 in the past two years. Laurence B. Packard '09, visiting professor of History from Amherst College, explained the relation of the African theater of war to other Free French endeavors, while C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, sketched the background of French control in these areas...