Word: doren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a worried Southerner Ellen Glasgow's realism makes her seem like a revolutionist. She is more of a belated Victorian with a full Victorian concern with moral problems. Last year she told Irita Van Doren: "I would lead the revolution myself if I were sure I'd get the right heads on my pike." The heads that Ellen Glasgow would hoist would please few revolutionists. No group is without them and no group has a monopoly of them. Ellen Glasgow has been thrusting at them since she started writing. They are called intolerance, injustice, inhumanity...
...Barr & colleagues combed a list of 300 critics, eventually chose as the program's regulars Princeton's Novelist-Poet Allen Tate, Columbia's Pulitzer Prize Poet Mark Van Doren, and Huntington Cairns, assistant general counsel of the U. S. Treasury. Chairman and star performer was Mr. Cairns, who in his spare time speaks 15 languages, reads omnivorously, likes to play the abstruse Japanese game...
Classicists Cairns, Tate and Van Doren earnestly tried to enliven their performance with modern applications of the classics. Quite without sparkle, their program plodded at a pedestrian classroom pace. Nonetheless, to the amazement of one & all, by last week it had attained an estimated audience of 1,000,000. Half a dozen publishers began to sell cheap editions of the classics hand over fist, 4,000 libraries found the books in such demand that they dug them out of dusty stacks, put them on special shelves...
...want the prize) for The Time of Your Life, which last week also captured the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; Historian Carl Sandburg, for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; Biographer Ray Stannard Baker, for Woodrow Wilson-Life and Letters (Vols. 7, 8); Poet Mark Van Doren, for Collected Poems; Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, for his dispatches to the New York Times from Berlin.* Other journalism citations: Baltimore Sun Cartoonist Edmund Duffy, New York World Telegram Reporter S. Burton Heath, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial-writer Bart Howard...
WHEN a poet writes a novel, he is generally accorded the amused attention elicited by a fish out of water, and the proverbial shoemaker and his last are recalled. Mr. Van Doren at no time runs the danger of such unflattering parallels, for as the readers of "The Transients" can well testify, he has earned renown as a novelist commensurate with that which he has gained as a critic and poet. And he has earned it, as he does now, by writing novels which can stand by themselves as mature and expert productions. If one discerns the poet in this...