Word: houghtons
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...Caslon Players are not actors; they are letters. The name of the troupe refers to their typography. As for the play, it consists of cavorting onstage in this year's most original alphabet book, The Z Was Zapped (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95). Chris Van Allsburg's narrative grants each performer an alliterative role: the D was nearly Drowned, the I was nicely Iced, the Y was Yanked away. His mastery of pencil and graphite dust humanizes the characters and lends them an air of drama, as if they were about to receive major parts in the theater of words, paragraphs...
John L. Ashbery '49, one of America's leading living poets, has agreed to transfer the bulk of his manuscripts and correspondences--worth at least $140,000--to the Houghton Library sometime next week, Curator of Manuscripts Rodney G. Dennis said yesterday...
Dennis said Houghton, which already houses the majority of e.e. cummings's '15 and Robert Lowell's '39 manuscripts, will pay more for the Ashbery papers than it has for any previous manuscript collection it has acquired...
...recipient of two Guggenheim, two Fulbright, a MacArthur, a Pulitzer, and a National Book Award prizes, Ashbery reached an agreement last December with the Houghton Library to deposit his papers there for an unannounced sum of money...
...Houghton purchase will be funded through the Amy Lowell endowment, which provides for more than half of Houghton's acquisitions. "It's a sacrifice for us for the next two or three years. We won't be able to purchase much as we wait for the coffers to fill up again," Dennis said...