Word: litterateurs
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...attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion, and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman." Having thus enjoined the S.R.O. audience at his first of three fall lectures as Oxford's new Professor of Poetry, British Litterateur Robert Graves, 66, last week wound up the series with a final cautionary note to young ladies who dream of becoming an artist's inspiration: "Too many irresponsible young women, eager for muse-ship, go in search of poetic recognition. Unless they have the integrity, the ruthlessness...
Widely known for his interpretations of other writers-his works include a graceful translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a critique of Amy Lowell and her times, and A History of American Poetry-Litterateur Horace Gregory, 63, last week was honored for his own urbane verse with the 1961 fellowship of the Academy of American Poets. A fulltime writer since a 1960 illness ended his 26-year teaching career at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, the Milwaukee-born poet reported "surprise" at his selection by a panel of other poets, including W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore...
...thus the ceaseless struggle between modern civilization and modern man, massively and often turgidly argued in the pioneering tetralogy-on which he labored, heedless of the paradox that as his reputation has grown, his influence has diminished. Now, in an intricate synthesis of his past output, Sociologist-Art Critic-Litterateur-Town Planner Mumford has written a densely composed history of that struggle on its most bloody battlefield-the city. The interpretation may not be fresh, but simply as a Portable Mumford (if 576 pages of narrative, 56 pages of annotated bibliography, and 114 pages of photographs and extended captions...
...executives love to dwell on a golden future when audiences will eagerly absorb great cultural programs, and sponsors will rush to pay for them. To prove that they are at least surveying the road to this promised land, the networks every now and then hire a well-known litterateur to act as intellectual trailblazer. Three years ago, NBC joyfully announced the hiring of Pulitzer Prizewinning Dramatist Robert Sherwood. Nothing much came of it. Last week CBS hired another Pulitzer Prizewinner, Dramatist Sidney (Men in White, Detective Story) Kingsley, to be its resident cultural genius...
...until 1894 that Mrs. Agassiz finally persuaded the Massachusetts legislature to grant her a charter ("I'd like to do anything that lady wants me to do," said one legislator after her impassioned speech). But, even by that time, some Harvardmen still retained their doubts. Huffed Litterateur Barrett Wendell, when asked if his daughters would go to Radcliffe: "My daughters, sir, I hope, are ladies." Snapped the equally literary Charles Townsend Copeland, when asked if he would give a course in Argument...