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Two longer works, a trial of Proust and a poem on the death of Shelley, further attest to the new zest for vitality in form. They are impressive in both length and language, but that very length is discouraging to the harried scholar and the springtime esoteric. They were written...

Author: By Arnold Bennett, | Title: The Little Magazine | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

I'm married to a scientist. I'm not going to give away all our family secrets here, and I'm not going to write an article on the sex life of a scientist, but there are a few things these high school students might consider. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Bach to Balinese. It plays anything from Bach to esoteric jazz. There have been concerts on the Royal Watusi drums, and by the Balinese Gamelan Orchestra. Drama ranges from Eumenides to Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, poetry readings from Robert Frost to Allen (Howl) Ginsberg, lecturers from former Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Highbrow's Delight | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Died. Jan Muller, 35, German-born painter who came to the U.S. in 1941, rebelled against the "New York School" ("Abstract art is too esoteric"), was one of the best semi-traditionalists; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

The Upper Story is not an art gallery, a coffee house, or a bargain bookstore. Whatever esoteric appeal the gift shop had while situated on an upper story was lost when it moved to a street-level, plate-glass window site on Church Street. According to Mrs. Howe, who runs...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Down to Earth | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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