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What They Seek. As Critic Edmund Wilson puts it, Lowell has achieved a poetic career on the old 19th century scale. Of the score or so of American poets who now stir the campuses, he is easily the most admired. Not that the suspicious young readily take to heroes, literary or otherwise, or are very clear about what they seek in poetry. Says Mount Holyoke Poet and History Professor Peter Viereck: students "crave the ever more shocking and ever more new. They are looking more for emotional release than purely artistic merit." Verse for edification or moral uplift; he adds...
...while it worked. Their daughter Harriet was born. They held expansive dinner parties at which intellectual nourishment was served with the same elegance that accompanied the finger bowls. Critics Edmund Wilson and Philip Rahv dined there, and so did Poets William Carlos Williams, Richard Eberhart and William Snodgrass, Lowell's most gifted student. "Lowell liked the successful poets with more than just a literary interest," recalls a friend. "They were reproductive, they had lasted the course-they were heroes of letters...
LANGUAGE AND SILENCE, by George Steiner. At 38, Steiner has earned a name as one of the leading U.S. literary critics and a possible successor to Edmund Wilson. This collection of eloquent essays shows...
...dispatch to the Washington Star last week, Veteran Moscow Correspondent Edmund Stevens traced the Soyuz tragedy back to the moment in 1966 when Soviet Space Chief Sergei Korolev died of complications after surgery for cancer. It was Korolev, said Stevens, who was largely responsible for Russia's early manned space program; his stature and prestige shielded him from political and economic expediency and enabled him to insist upon thorough testing of new spacecraft before they were flown...
...sentencing on federal charges arising from his 1962 malefaction. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Armstrong praised Gilbert, who had pleaded guilty to three counts of his indictment, for having "cooperated with the Government and the SEC." His own attorney described him as "thoroughly contrite." While the defendant stood numbly, Judge Edmund L. Palmieri pronounced sentence: a $21,000 fine, two years in prison. Having also pleaded guilty to state larceny charges, Gilbert next faces sentencing in New York State Supreme Court, where he could get up to 30 years...