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The very things in his work that have set the conventional-minded to spluttering with outrage have made Cummings a writ ers' writer and a particular idol of the young. A few years ago, when Cummings went to Bennington College in Vermont to give a reading, the entire audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Education, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a water smooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreej our five pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death At Bennington as in other schools, Cummings'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Education, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Cummings himself wrote: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child? - No, I'd hit her with a brick.' Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Education, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

The Enormous Room is one of the few classics in English that was inspired by World War I; it was out of Cummings' own experience in a French war prison. Eimi (Greek for I am), re cently republished, is the journal of Cummings' trip to Russia in 1931...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Education, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

In his ground-floor apartment, jammed with books, hung with of crowded with knickknacks, including herds of carved elephants trekking over shelves and mantel, Cummings entertains his friends. He sits in a straight chair tilted against the wall. Crumpled bills, spilled coins, dropped when he returned from his walk, strew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Education, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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