Word: levins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jencks, in his review of Harry Levin's Contexts of Criticism, made some perceptive criticisms of the validity of the academic approach to literature; however, Mr. Jencks has drawn some remarkable moral conclusions from his aesthetic arguments. Mr. Levin, it seems, has committed a "sin" against mankind in pursuing his career in his particular fashion...
What, precisely, is Mr. Levin's "sin?" It is living in a world of words which is "neither dangerous nor implacable;" living in a world in which "nobody suffers more than the loss of a promotion;" living in a world in which "only truth is moral." So, it would seem, Mr. Jenck's desideratum is a dangerous world, a world of considerable suffering, a world in which, apparently, falsehood is moral--in short, the "workaday world...
...what is Mr. Levin to do in this "workaday world?" There are those who belive the masses of the world are guided by greed, power, emotion; those who believe that the "workaday world" is dull, vapid, inessential. There are those who believe that "the world of words," rather than a tissue of shadows and reflected passions," is the only source of intensity, vitality, truth. If, indeed, as Mr. Jencks says, the world is irrational, of what use is the constructive mind, save perhaps to depict it, to "breed one work that wakes." Mr. Jencks' fundamental error, I believe...
...undefeated in four starts, plays American International College at 3 p.m. Coach John Caulfield will start Dave Masch as catcher; Frank Saia, 1b; George Harrington, 2b; Levin Kasarjian, ss; Jim Shue, 3b; Kent Hathaway, lf; Keith Coster, cf; Tony Markella, rf; and Steve Rhoades, pitcher...
Conversation (Thurs. 8:30 p.m..NBC). Novelist Meyer (Compulsion) Levin and Myrl E. Alexander of the Federal Bureau of Prisons on "What Makes a Criminal...