Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your criticism of poets like Jeffers and Taggard-and I imagine you would include Lola Ridge, Tagore, Anna Hempstead Branch and others called mystical and "metaphysical" -unerringly indicates your own limitation as critic. You simply missed the boat so far as they are concerned, and in my humble opinion you always will miss it, so long as your ideas of poetry are based on semantics...
...greater courtesy than that of the smart epithet. You have shown, in your excellent reviews of the poetry of Cummings and Garcia Lorca, that you can describe verse intelligently and soberly. Consequently it is all the more disheartening to read your high-school wisecrack dismissals of Dr. Williams and Miss Taggard-writers whose long service to American poetry certainly deserves more consideration than you seem willing to pay it. No one will quarrel with reasoned, documented condemnation; what is really immoral is this arbitrary fixing of labels-"poetaster," "poeticule," "ham" (in a recent "review" of unhappy memory)-and then forcing...
Several Radcliffe girls were found to be among the singers of the petition. Miss Vivian Wolfe, pretty blonde Freshman said: "The Harvard boys need a course like that -- badly." However her companion, Miss Alice Barr, Radcliffe '40 assured that "they know enough already." Miss Jane Samble, Radcliffe '40 deplored: "Even such a course wouldn't make a Harvard man fir for marriage...
More than 6,000 girls, including several Radcliffe undergraduates, have entered, Miss Marsters told the CRIMSON, adding that she sought girls with beautiful minds. Contestants will be fully clothed when judged...
Laurence Housman has written a great chronicle drama, and Miss Hayes' performance has been widely and justly acclaimed; the combination should not be missed, and a second or a third visit will not go unrewarded...