Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day at Ohio's Kenyon College, where he was graduated in 1948, Palme pleaded for a politics of moderation. "Political action," he said, "must start in the daily lives of the people." As Palme spoke at an alumni reunion, about 80 longshoremen from Cleveland and Toledo chorused, "Go home, go home...
...KENYON COLLEGE...
Middlebrow Raid. The Kenyon changed direction in the '60s. Under Novelist Robie Macauley, chosen by Ransom to succeed him as editor, it paid more attention to fiction and broad essays on contemporary culture. Macauley may have been right to de-emphasize criticism. The nation's new crop of critics were more scholastic and often imitative. But the lure of little literary journals meant nothing to the new writers of the decade, who could find big money and broader fame in relatively large-circulation magazines like Esquire, Harper's and Atlantic. As Macauley, now fiction editor of Playboy...
Admirers remained loyal, but the Kenyon declined. Publication costs rose. Last week the college told the review's 6,000 subscribers that the next issue will likely be the last. Kenyon College trustees, who paid a $40,000 subsidy last year, have decided to pay no more. The only hope for the Kenyon's survival, it seems, is some new outside benefactor...
...none materializes, the journal's epitaph could be a paraphrase of a sentiment expressed by Ransom about a poet in the Kenyon in 1964: Having achieved all the wisdom that was available to it, the Kenyon was ready to subside, happy but used up, into the annihilation of death...