Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Joseph Ferdinand ("Professor Sea Gull," "The Mongoose") Gould, 68, self-styled "Last of the Bohemians," colorful, scraggy-bearded habitue of Greenwich Village bars and Bowery flophouses; in Pilgrim State (mental) Hospital, Brentwood, N.Y. A descendant of silk-stockinged Boston families, Harvardman CTI) Gould was a onetime (1916-17) New...
At Harvard summer school last year, Sophomore Leland Cummings Jr. met Mary Louise Werner. Her father was a wealthy industrialist from Milwaukee, his father a comfortably fixed chemical engineer from Wyncote, Pa. When it came to talk of marriage, there was trouble-but not the kind a faithful moviegoer would...
e.e. cummings
This year's Festival Poetry Award went to e.e. cummings '15. Mr. cummings gave a reading of a dozen and a half of his poems on June 23, including a new poem on the occasion of the Festival, "i am a little church," more traditional in style than many of...
He was introduced by last year's Award-winner, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who said that we should not worry too much about the meaning of cummings' poems, that "a poem is apprehended in the ear." He termed cummings "one of the few pure lyric voices...