Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald Davidson, 45, is a Tennessean, professor of English at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, a leading member of the Southern agrarians (Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al.). Like the rest of those resolute, nostalgic patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead...
Despite Donald Davidson's sincerity and competence, his attempts to revive a live present by hypodermic injections of a dead past are poeticulous...
...Editor of the magazine, John I. B. McCulloch, is a graduate student hero in the field of Inter-American relations, and the Managing Editor, Frank P. Davidson '38, was founder and first president of the "Harvard Guardian...
...Eliot team, taking the affirmative, is led by John H. Finley '25, assistant professor of Classics, and includes Archie B. Roosevelt, Jr. '40, and Donald H. Davidson '39. The negative side is composed of Dean of Records Reginald H. Phelps, associate of Dudley Hall, Lloyd G. Butterfield '40 and Morris Yarosh '41. This is the second time this year that Eliot has debated, having lost its first match to Winthrop. The Commuter team is debating for the first time...
...President Roosevelt joined by radio in dedicating a Will Rogers memorial museum and statue (by Jo Davidson) at Claremore, Okla. Excerpt: "When he [Rogers] wanted people to laugh out loud he used the methods of pure fun. And when he wanted to make a point for the good of all mankind, he used the kind of gentle irony that left no scars." Eddie Cantor said: "Any time you gave him a biscuit, he'd want to pay you back with a barrel of flour...