Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chatter of Monkeys. "The real meaning of the cubist movement," wrote New York Painter Kenyon Cox in Harper's Weekly, "is nothing else than the total destruction of the art of painting." Other critics denounced modernism as "the chatter of anarchistic monkeys" and "the harbinger of universal anarchy." To them, it proved that Europe was suffering from "the licentiousness of over-estheticism, the madness of ultra culture...
...studying the violin at 3½, won numerous musical competitions while also acting at the Cleveland Playhouse. He also painted; Washington's National Gallery owns some of his work. In high school, he won third prize at the National Science Fair for building a symbolic logic computer. At Kenyon College ('60), he majored in math...
...KENYON COLLEGE Alan S. Paton, author, leader of South...
Lowell is the great-grandnephew of James Russell Lowell, and a distant relative of Amy Lowell. He studied at Harvard from 1935 to 1937 and was graduated summa cum laude from Kenyon College...
After study at Harvard and Kenyon College, Lowell issued his first volume of poems, Land of Unlikeness, in 1944. In 1947 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Lord Weary's Castle, another collection of his works. He has also published a score of critical and autobiographical essays. He has taught at Boston University...