Word: forster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COLLECTED TALES OF E. M. FORSTER (308 pp.)-Knopf...
Last week an answer came from a high quarter: England's second-ranking prelate, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. Wrote the 72-year-old Archbishop in his new book, The Claims of the Church of England: There is at present a "tendency towards totalitarianism in the State. The State increasingly exercises control over every department of the life of the community. It is not likely that the Church will escape from this movement. Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible...
...lined "ABC", the authors of "Colloquy on Robert Lowell," are actually Joel Dorius, Robert E. Garis, and S. F. Johnson, three teaching fellows in English, who discuss the Pulitzer Poet with lively dialectical ease. Andrew Eklund's "Forster and the Marabar Caves" is an exceptionally clear exposition of both Forster's development and Eklund's own response. You may wish to disagree with Eklund's contention that an artist's work may be examined for a "particular point of view, without attempting to equate the examination with any literary or artistic judgment," but Eklund consistently presents his argument, concerned more...
England's famed Author E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) is neither musician nor music critic; but he is a music-lover. Last week at Harvard, speaking to 700 musicians, professors and critics, he offered words of hope to jaded music critics...
...Said Forster: "The work of art ... is recalcitrant to criticism. ... It expects always to be heard or read or seen for the first time.... Can we combine experience and innocence? I think we can. ... It is possible to become like a child who says 'Oh!' each time the ball bounces, although he has seen it bounce before and knows it must bounce...