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...Latter-day Runyon creatures spoke a language of their own, a dialect which showed traces of remote English ancestry but which, despite its lack of formal grammar, was curiously courtly in its rhythms. When a Runyon character wanted to say that a tout had left money to his girl friend to buy him a tombstone, he said, "I am under the impression that he leaves Beatrice well loaded as far as the do-re-mi is concerned and I take it for granted that she handles the stone situation." In Runyonese there was only one tense, the universal present...
...Harvard English department, which approved the selection, MacLeish seemed an ideal choice. As a Pulitzer Prizewinning poet (Conquistador, 1932), MacLeish lives up to the latter-day Boylston tradition of creative rather than scholastic talent as exemplified by the last two holders of the chair: Poet Robert S. Hillyer and Poet Theodore Spencer, who died in January. He will receive upward of $10,000 a year, plus the legendary right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard. To MacLeish, the job will mean one more turn to a career that has already covered a catalogue of callings, ranging from gentleman-farmer...
...added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
Reformation without tarrying, was the watchword of 16th Century Robert Browne, father of Congregationalism. Last week, the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches, deciding that it had tarried long enough over a latter-day reformation, voted to merge with the 700,000-member Evangelical & Reformed Church. The new denomination, to be called the United Church of Christ, will number approximately 2,000,000 members. It is the largest Protestant union since the Methodist Protestant Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the M.E. Church, South were reunited...
Planted Ironies. The Wall, now published in an expensive limited edition, is a volume of Sartre's short stories written in 1939. His earlier writing turns out to have been an uncompromising preview of his latter-day pessimism. The characters are chiefly miserable neurotics beset by sexual frustrations, their personal despair compounded by life's (or Sartre's) carefully planted ironies...