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Warren Beck is an English teacher at Lawrence College (Wis.). In Into Thin Air he never talks big and never tries for too much, but he shows writing craft good enough for a larger theme. When he finds it, the U.S. may have another novelist to cheer about...
...deterioration is far ahead of new construction. The only way out is demolishing old buildings and replacing them with more valuable structures. At the present, the business groups who could do this are staying away from Boston. This is partly due to soft land, which forces companies to build larger foundations than usual, and to Boston's crazy street layout...
Bender also pointed out that while it might be fine to have a larger Army unit here, it was lack of student interest in the program before Korea that geared the Army unit to its present staff...
Vacancies have existed in the unit since September when only 45 freshmen made applications to it. Since the war situation has grown more serious, many draft-conscious students have asked to be admitted. The Army has a staff of 11 men which can adequately handle the larger number of men. The Defense Department will not, however, give draft deferments this year to the newly admitted freshmen...
...become more allusive and complex than that, but he belongs in general, with those modern American poets who seem to be more interested in talking to other people (though sometimes only to other poets) than in talking to themselves. Moreover, 62-year-old John Ransom has cast an increasingly larger shadow over three decades of U S writing history. The "ferment of his ideas in the heads of his old pupils" (a phrase Ransom applies to Aristotle) has had acknowledged results. Some of his ex-pupils: Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate...