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David Diao, 28, came to New York eight years ago from Gambier, Ohio, where he had been studying philosophy at Kenyon College. In his new show at the Reese Palley Gallery, his work, which once was austere almost to the point of impalpability, has taken on a peculiar density and resonance. Thick swaths of glossy acrylic are rolled onto the canvas in 5-ft.-wide swipes, and then buried by further layers. "I wanted to get away from all those tricks and nuances," says Diao. "I like to just lay a color down and leave it." The broad squeegee marks...
...such a romantic genesis. Two American students at Oxford, Gordon K. Chalmers and Roberta T. Swartz, fell in love. He proposed in 1929, promising to try to establish a literary review in the United States. She accepted. In 1937, he became president of tiny Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. In 1939, the Kenyon Review was born...
MARK E. SULLIVAN Gambier, Ohio...
...Gambier, Ohio...
...returned to Cambridge to muddle through a bit more and, although it seemed impious to his parents for a Lowell to reject Harvard, he was allowed to transfer to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where Ransom and Randall Jarrell now taught. They were to make the Kenyon Review into a dominant force in American poetry and criticism for the next three decades. "I am the sort of poet I am because...