Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yardlings, interested in the Group are competing for four essay prizes of $25, to be awarded January 15. About thirty essays will be submitted on any phase of American history. A second series and a contest will be sponsored next semester...
...Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (Macmillan; $2.50), edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, is a definitive collection of Scottish verse (much of it written in the Scots' language); and the editor, in an introductory essay as prickly with his native thought as a Highland moor is with heather, goes a long way towards putting Scottish poetry into its right place in the total perspective of the world's literature. Scottish poetry, Editor MacDiarmid points out, is capable of being both genuinely literary, and popular with the common people-something that English poetry has never succeeded in being. Editor MacDiarmid makes...
Died. Mme. Georgette Leblanc, 66, longtime intimate and "inspiration" of Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck; after a year's illness; in Le Cannet, France. In 1893, entranced by Maeterlinck's poetic mysticism, which she discovered after a chance reading of his essay on Emerson, she tore up her contract with the Opera Comique, left Paris for Brussels "to become the wife of the great Maeterlinck." Wearing on her forehead a blue diamond which she said was a symbol of happiness, Mme. Leblanc met Maeterlinck at a supper party, lived with him for more than 20 years, and maintained...
...generally powerful plot of this movie goes back to his painstaking delineation of character. But when scenario-writers-in the inconceivably heroic turnabout of the mine-owner, Barras, and again in a superfluous and mystical epilogue-attempt to expand a stirring argument for public ownership into a vague essay on the goodness of man, they over step logical bounds...
...eleven true stories illustrating the general misery of the age in all parts of the globe; 5) Irrevocable Hours, sketches of Hitler, Mussolini, Hess, et al., including a rational argument that Hess is in England because Hitler sent him there; 6) The River Flows Home, a hortatory and prophetic essay suggesting the shape of things to come. Sample: "The tumult breaks out once more. A mob storms the Bastille and a king's head rolls in the dust. Man will be happy yet. . . . You, too, workers of the world, in your slums and lightless factories, you will know...