Word: matthiessen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week, Professor Matthiessen made his way downtown and engaged a room on the twelfth floor of the Manger, a commercial hotel next door to Boston's North Station. That evening he went out to dinner at the Beacon Hill home of his old friend, Professor Kenneth B. Murdock. Though their talk was mostly of books and poetry, Matthie seemed unusually depressed. About 11:30 he said goodbye. Shortly afterward he got to his room in the downtown hotel, spread out a note to whom it might concern. "I have taken this room in order to do what...
Then, within a few minutes after entering his room, Francis Otto Matthiessen, 48, took off his spectacles, stepped to the window, climbed over the sill and dropped to his death...
...column article on the late Professor Francis O. Matthiessen by Boston Herald columnist Bill Cunningham has led to a flurry of editorial rebuttals in that paper over the last week. The article appeared last Monday, the day of Matthiessen's funeral, and referred to his suicide as "a confession of moral cowardice" and the "ne plus ultra of dramatizing oneself to the last possible fraction of a second...
...Hits Matthiessen's Politics...
...Cunningham article was headlined "Matthiessen's End a Warning--Basic Intelligence Triumphs Over Professor's Ideology...