Word: levins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calm rising through change and through storm", English has retained its traditional popularity, and with 267 concentrators is second only to Government. This large number can be accounted for by the universal interest of its subject matter, and a department which includes names like Matthiessen, Miller, Levin, Jones, Murdock, and Spencer...
...number, but have simply seen internal shiftings of emphasis, The fundamental courses, especially, will retain their ante-bellum form, but the department foresees the necessity of trimming its "topsails." One expected addition this summer, however, will be English 190b, Literature and Democracy, to be given by Faculty Instructor Harry Levin with Associate Professor Perry Miller this summer and Associate Professor Francis O. Matthiessen next winter...
Kenneth Murdock, Higginson Professor of English Literature, and Harry Levin, Instructor in English, of the English Department, agreed upon the importance of artistic honesty and craftsmanship...
After the final curtain Composer Taylor, his quizzical face wreathed in a great smile, appeared before the footlights with Conductor Sylvan Levin. His upraised hand silenced the ovation. "Excuse me just a minute," he said, then leaned over, kissed the wiry little maestro on both cheeks, in true Basque fashion. The audience decided that it had enjoyed itself thoroughly; the critics, that the great American opera was still to be written...
Joyce's three major works are seen by Levin as a progression from the lyric form, in which the creation and the artist are inextricably intertwined, to the epic in which the creation is in mediate relation between the artist and others, to the dramatic, in which it is in immediate relation to others. "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" exemplifies the first phase, "Ulysses" the second, and "Finnegan's Wake" the last. If it might seem to some readers that the last two have achieved only the most tenuous relationship with "others," Levin's study does much...