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...scoring threats from their forward positions. A fine defensive halfback line of Mike Kohler, Tom Gleason and John Harberson was backed up by the Elephants' impermeable Final House Football Standings W L T Yale Opponent Dunster 7 0 0 Trumbull Kirkland 6 1 0 Calhoun Winthrop 3 3 1 Davenport Adams 3 3 1 Silliman Leverett 3 4 0 Timothy Dwight Dudley 2 5 0 Berkeley Eliot 1 5 1 Jonathan Edwards Lowell 1 6 0 Pierson...
...screen. In the end Narrator Walter Cronkite intoned: "This was the man . . . When will there be another like him?" The marrow in between was a combination of film clips, photographs and dialogue lovingly composed by Producer Burton Benjamin, Associate Producer Isaac Kleinerman and Writer John Davenport into a Concerto for Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk; a boyish, 53-year-old General Dwight Eisenhower munching lunch on the floor of Franklin...
...this flotsam, however, the editors do reveal a general attitude in their preference for the humorous. Guy Davenport's cover reflects the nature of their rebellion against the dust-dry Quarterlies, his artsy Greeks standing about whimsically in one-eyed observation. If Audience champions anything, it is laughter as a respectable occupation of the literati...
...away its bloodier contributors. There is not a serious duplication of function, however, for Audience appears to be bent upon being a full-fledged review, not merely a vehicle for undergraduate-prose-and-poetry. The difference in approach is illustrated most clearly in the Audience reviews and articles. Guy Davenport in "The Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards" of a literary mode but with its movement in intellectual history. The interest is in observation rather than in literary pomp. Audience's casual observations, however, can carry it astray. Donald Van Eman sets...
...issue features poems by I. A. Richards, University Professor, Donald Hall, John Coolidge, Peter Heliczer, John Hollander, Richard Howard, Arthur Freeman, and Roger Morse, and short stories by Juan Alonso, and Guy Davenport...