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Williams, a New Jersey physician and part-time author, has published both prose and poetry, including "Spring and All," "An Early Martyr," and "In the Money." In his Phi Beta Kappa poem he described a trip taken in Mexico, and used realistic imagery in an effort to show that a poet does not simply reproduced what he sees, but rather sets down the music inspired by the sight. Later in his speech he urged that American authors build up an American language of their own and cease copying the Englishman's language...
Something of a Martyr. A fortnight ago they ordered him to stop his campus preaching. Phelps moved across the road, off campus, and kept on preaching. Principal Turrell warned him again. "He accosted me in very stern language," says Phelps, "and told me that he would call the law. So I told him I had no fears. If the police arrested me I would preach to them in jail...
...preaching, was not to be discouraged by a little thing like suspension. Last week he was back, preaching from the lawn of a friendly Pasadena citizen across from the quadrangle. His audiences were bigger and more sympathetic; in fact, Fred Phelps now had something of the attraction of a martyr...
...French-Italian collaboration focuses on a graying Frenchman who is a refugee from age and from a murder which he has committed. His escape is not complete, but in the few days which precede his arrest he learns to love life once more. His renaissance is that of a martyr, for it takes place in the most squalid of scenes, rubble-ridden Genoa. Here is a drama of courage, and a type of courage which is indeed a social phenomenon in post-war Europe...
...there are also dangers inherent in the General's removal. He may now return to the United States as a martyr, to be exhibited daily by the Hearst press and the rabid opponents of the Administration's Asian policy. His removal from the post of Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers will give the Russians an opportunity to barge into the Japanese problem...