Word: hillyer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boylston chair has now gone to four poets in succession: Fitzgerald's predecessors were Robert Hillyer, who retired in 1944 and died in 1961, Theodore Spencer, who died in 1949, and Archibald MacLeish, who retired in 1962. It is one of the Ivy League's most informal posts, permits its holder to make of it what he will. Fitzgerald has no doubt at all about what he intends to do with it. "I am a writer and have writing to do, and I'm going to do it," he says. He is just finishing a critical anthology...
...WHIT HILLYER Evanston...
...achieve the musical and personal rapport that such expressiveness requires, the players cultivate an emotional generosity toward one another that reminds them all of a good marriage. First Violinist Robert Mann, 43, and Violist Raphael Hillyer, 49, charter members of the quartet, are a perfect match for musicmaking-Mann the easy, natural leader, Hillyer the intense, nervous brooder. Second Violinist Isidore Cohen, 40, who joined in 1958, seldom speaks except when spoken to-a towering virtue in a second violinist -and Cellist Claus Adam, 45, is also an ideal man for his instrument-a calm, stable, reassuring anchorman...
...when we have the time, we each contribute our one-quarter." Argument over interpretation occasionally reaches an impasse, but the quartet solves such problems by playing a piece differently from night to night until all agree on one idea. "It's a knockdown, drag-out battle sometimes," Hillyer says, but they always resolve their differences...
Died. Robert Silliman Hillyer, 66, winner of the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and from 1937 to 1944 occupant of Harvard's prestigious Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position previously held by such notables as John Quincy Adams and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland; of a heart attack; in Wilmington, Del. A prolific novelist, essayist and critic, Hillyer was most at home in verse where he deftly combined elegance and gentle irony...