Word: dray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author Connell writes, lines of fiery poetry are often encountered, drooping through their allotted space a syllable at a time, like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely upon their effect as psychological images. That...
...Bellows was blithe. He smacked his lips over life. In Art, he belonged to the school of gusto. Wharf-rats, city parks, snowy clustered roofs, great clumping dray horses, seamy faces of dock laborers, pale ladies, prizefighters, gentle landscapes-he painted all with the impulse of a poet and the hand of a realist. To form he gave a significance from which modernists shrink because it is obvious, conservatives because it is daring and which many art-lovers admire because it is both...
Yale, which has led the ballot in the last two years, ran 17 votes behind the University this year. This is the largest margin Harvard has had over Yale in the voting since 1918. Yale will dray 39, Princeton 30, Dartmouth...