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Theodore G. Alevizos, librarian of Lamont, said yesterday that the loss of Longfellow Hall for section meetings had caused an unusual number of sections to be moved into Lamont...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Cliffies Use Classrooms in Lamont; Front-Desk Bastion Crumbles, Too | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...fortunes not to Olympus, but to New England. Born in Boston, it chose a poet, James Russell Lowell, as its first editor; it was published by and for New England's self-centered literary establishment. The magazine served largely to give such 19th century essayists as Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier and Thoreau-some of whom took a hand in the Atlantic's establishment-a literary outlet of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Insurance Against Lapidify | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...will operate have not yet been discussed. Nor has the naming of the building. Ordinarily, college buildings are dedicated to the person who contributes roughly half their total cost. So far, more than $3.5 million has been pledged to the Study Center, including $1 million from the sale of Longfellow Hall, and the Fund Committee hopes to have the total amount--$4.5 million--pledged by the time the building opens...

Author: By Mary L. Wissler, | Title: New Radcliffe Study Center Will Increase Shelf Space, Provide More Meeting Places, Shorten Cliffies' Rounds | 5/19/1964 | See Source »

They fell in with a bohemian group of intellectuals led by Hazel Hawthorne, whom Fred describes as "one of the original beats," and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, a somewhat leftish drama professor at Columbia and Harvard. Dana subsidized Cheever modestly, and Hazel took him to Provincetown to visit the famed Playhouse. He was already keeping the meticulous diary in which he accumulated the incidents, sights, smells and thoughts that are the raw material for his books. Cheever even then seemed to have an infinite capacity for wonder, was constantly fascinated with how close reality came to the fantastic. He began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...unmistakable stamp of Lawrence's chaotic, irascible mind. He saw the underlying theme of U.S. literature as the "disintegration of the primal self." "On the top it is nice as pie, goody-goody and lovey-dovey. Like Hawthorne being such a blue-eyed darling, in life, and Longfellow and the rest such sucking doves." Underneath, "serpents they were." James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels may read like adventure stories, but they are really primal myths about "the collapse of the white psyche divided between innocence and lust." Melville also "knew his race was doomed, his white soul, doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The We's | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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