Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...child's complacency is the threatened loss of Christmas-an anxiety that, surprisingly, provides the plot for three of the season's best children's writers: Dr. Seuss in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ("The Grinch hated Christmas!. . . No one quite knows the reason"), Ogden Nash in The Christmas That Almost Wasn't ("This was the gruesome, grimsome guard/That ruled the land under Evilard/And decided to outlaw Christmas"), and Phyllis McGinley in The Year without a Santa Claus ("Headlines screamed/Wires went humming./Santa says 'Too tired'/Not coming...
...Divine (M.I.T.). Time--2:19.6. 440-yard freestyle--Won by Seaton (H); second, Kohlman (M.I.T.); third, Pecsok (H). Time--5:11.2. 200-yard breast-roke--Won by McCartney (H); second, West (M.I.T.); third, Falk (H). Time--2:37.9. (breaks pool record). 400-yard freestyle relay--Won by Harvard: Rose, Nash, Winthrop, and Cochran; second, M.I.T.: Veeck, Kossler, Kane, and Windle; Time...
...black and white and gray by Willard Midgette looks out from the cover of the latest Advocate with a seniorial air of wisdom. Both the color and the air of the owl match those of the two stories therein, by Sallie Bingham and A.E. Keir Nash...
...contrast to the cold black and white of this story is the warm gray of Nash's "The Most Proper Tone." It's about a successful history professor's effort to understand his thoroughly unintellectual football player son. Involved in this problem is the professor's general failure to communicate emotionally with other people or even himself. The action centers around a New England prep school football game in which the son takes a leading part...
Both stories, as with so much undergraduate, or for that matter graduate (i.e., New Yorker) writing today, depend heavily on understatement, although Nash's understatement, paradoxically, is often prolix. The supreme achievement, however, is Arthur Freeman's poem "Whew": in a satire of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", he has managed to get the muse of the Beat Generation for once to understate herself. This is no mean accomplishment...