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...Walter Dakin Williams, 41, is a captain in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Scott A.F.B. near St. Louis. He is an enthusiastic bridge player, an amateur actor and an occasional writer. In the Roman Catholic magazine Information last week, Captain Williams (a Catholic convert since 1944) discussed his older brother Tom. When he was just a tot back home in Columbus, Miss., Tom had once dug a huge hole in the yard, explaining: "I'm diggin' to de debbil." Today he is digging still, and getting closer-or so it seems to millions who know...
...gist of Dakin's argument is that Tom "is not a 'dirty' writer," that he is really turning out "morality plays." Exposure of Sin. Head on, Walter meets skeptics who find mostly corruption in his brother's work (see above...
...norm, Mr. A. can find no words to explain his sense of their quality or their meaning. He only mentions them briefly in a negative context. He also conveniently avoids a judgment on the sincerity or validity of the point of view expressed in Mr. Smith's letter.... Sara Dakin...
More serious than that charge, however, is the assertion that we are suffering from an Identity Crisis. What this is exactly is explained by Sara Dakin (co-editor of Gadfly) in her laboriously symbolic essay, "Pig." At the price of trying to write on six levels of meaning, and, after switching metaphors in midstream, she says, "All pigs wander through this limbo period, constantly asking themselves "Who am I?' and 'What is my place in the pen?' This. . . we described as undergoing an identity crisis...
Other contributions include Miss Dakin's "Pigs," a review of the Harvard lecture system, a criticism of Ezra Pound and Sherry Martinelly by Guy M. Davenport, Jr. '59, and a discussion by Morton H. Levine, teaching fellow in General Education, of experiences with students...