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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillip H. Rhinelander '29, teaching fellow in General Education, will take over Philosophy 1b, the history of modern philosophy. Professor John D. Wild will give Philosophy 105, Demos' course on Aristotle...
...Eliot record was first made in Cambridge two springs ago when the noted poet came to the College for a Morris Gray Readings on modern poetry, but the original record was found to be imperfect and Eliot made another recording recently at his London home for the Vocarium...
...show . . . certainly reflects an advanced stage of the disintegration of modern painting. But it is disintegration with a possibly liberating and cathartic effect and informed by a highly individual rhythm . . . At every point of concentration of these high-tension moments of bravura phrasing . . . there is a disappointing absence of resolution in an image or pictorial incident, for all their magical diffusion of power . . . Certainly Pollock has carried the irrational quality of picture making to one extremity . . . And the danger for imitators in such a directly physical expression of states of being rather than of thinking or knowing is obvious . . . What...
This week, a modern psychoanalyst brought forth another theory: Oedipus may have been unconsciously looking for power, rather than sex. Manhattan's Erich Fromm argued the point in a new anthology (The Family: Its Function and Destiny, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen; Harper; $6). According to Fromm, there is no real evidence in the ancient myth that Oedipus was in love with his mother. He murdered his father, King Laius of Thebes, and was later made king; then he married his mother (without knowing their relationship) merely because she went along with the throne...
...modern poetry has any common denominator, it is probably this sense of full but precarious moments-a conviction that beauties are transient, leaseholds short, attitudes fated, and all the foundations mined. Against this conviction Mrs. Daryush, like many another contemporary, balances faith in the precarious art of poetry. Her lyrics are those of a gentlewoman (she lives a retired Oxfordshire country life with her husband, a onetime official of the Persian foreign office), but, like her father's, her poems have responded to public occasions. This was written on the war in Ethiopia...