Word: helicon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deserves a spirited rendition of "Wintergreen". It touches the weakest spot in the armour of "Lampoon" and "Advocate" partisans. The "funnyman" makes no more mature interpretation than youthful jollity and a liberal allowance of beer can produce, while the muses of the "Advocate" often walk too high on literary Helicon for the vulgar population to follow them. Yet if the intended sacrifice of intellectuality to readability in the new magazine means a shoddy, superficial interpretation of Harvard life, the price for its existence will be exorbitant...
Your issue of Oct. 22, p. 16, referring to the burning of Helicon Hall: "An arson charge was brought against Sinclair, but subsequently dropped...
Colonist. No sooner had Upton Sinclair pocketed his profits than he embarked on his first Utopia, the Helicon Hall Colony. Site was an expensive Mission-type building at Englewood, N. J. above the Hudson, which had been erected for a boys' school. Radical literary folk were welcomed, the idea behind the establishment being bonhomie and laissez faire. Sinclair Lewis went down from Yale to tend the furnace. Englewood, then as now a tycoons' home ground, took an instant dislike to the Helicon Hallers and their host, who used to go around the town in old corduroys, flannel shirt...
...SNOWS OF HELICON-H. M. Tomlinson-Harper...
Henry Major Tomlinson's Gallions Reach and All Our Yesterdays got him a reputation for profundity. His publishers describe The Snows of Helicon as "a man's dream of beauty." Author Tomlinson at 60 is still oracular, but perhaps his latest work is better qualified as a rather young man's dream of beauty...