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...fitting to review together the recent volumes of verse by Cummings and Kirstein. Both are Harvard men (Cummings graduated in 1915, and Kirstein in 1930), and both names connote, at least in Philistia, the no plus ultra of that kind of modern literature which baffles the plain man, and rejoices in its baffling. As editor of the late lamented "Hound and Horn," Kirstein frequently published Cummings, and if he were now a publisher, he would not be among the unappreciative tradesmen who refused Cummings' present batch, perhaps because they felt that, in these days of mounting expenses, they could...
...lyricist, on the other hand, he is the same as ever--No. 55 is the high spot--and many another minor poet would be proud of such a line as "all things whose slendering sweetness touched renown," even if it means somewhat less than it promises, like Kirstein's volume, which is always trembling on the verge (horrible phrase!) and never quite slipping or soaring. The best pieces are "Chamber of Horrors" and "Kidnapped"; Kirstein is obviously strongly influenced by Spender and Auden, and that is a bad sign, one may venture to suggest, for there...
With headquarters in Washington, Retail Lobbyist Sherrill is expected to bring unity out of the babel. "We merchants," said Merchant Kirstein with feeling, "dealing directly with more than 100,000,000 customers, would like to be consulted about national and economic problems. That will be the job of the American Retail Federation, and I believe that Mr. Sherrill will see that it is done...
...Sherrill accepted the ARF presidency at the urging of Louis E. Kirstein, wise, liberal head of Boston's big Filene's department store. At present each important division of the nation's $20,000,000,000 retail business has its own trade group like the potent National Retail Dry Goods Association, the National Association of Retail Druggists, the National Council of Shoe Retailers, the National Association of Music Merchants. It is not even possible to learn with any certainty the total of U. S. stores. Recalling his experience on the NRA Advisory Board, Merchant Kirstein, prime...
...CEILING-Lincoln Kirstein-Putnam ($2). Fashionably intellectual poems by the brilliant young editor of the late Hound and Horn...