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...Problems, and William Hodson, '42, contributes an article on the techniques of campaigning for political candidates. Hodson, using as an illustration the efforts of the Harvard Liberal Union in Representative Eliot's 1940 campaign, provides a leaven of refreshing realism. Harvard's other contributions are "Two Parables" by Howard Nemerov, '41, poetry by William Ober, '41, and a summary of the Crimson editorial series, "Give Us the Blueprints...
...other short stories in the issue, Howard Nemerov's "Gerhart Otto" and Bowden Broadwater's "The Family Round" are both competent, craftsmanlike, and seem to say a great deal more than they actually do. It might almost be worthwhile if the Advocate were to require its authors to attach a short explanatory work to each contribution. This might be illuminating for the authors themselves and for the Advocate staff, as well as for the general public...
...difficult balance it nearly maintains between humor and sentimentalism; its weakness is that it continues for at least one page after it is finished. The second story, enigmatically entitled "The Native In The World" (sometimes "The Native Of The World," which makes the matter no clearer) is by Howard Nemerov. Here, in the familiar world of the Houses, Dunster Street, and St. Clairs, we are invited to observe the psychological antics of unfamiliar characters. If Nemerov does not make his subject matter seem very important, that is because, in his handling of it, he does not make it seem convincing...
...last story, "We Can Go Home Now," is by William Parker, and an admirable complement of Mr. Nemerov's little tale of psychological melodrama it is. For Mr. Parker comes out in the open with melodrama that is above-board and does not hesitate to beat its chest. This is the story of an ugly party named Bert Coonrod who shoots one of his companions on a deer hunt not quite for the sheer pleasure of shooting him. Mr. Parker could do without the sections of italicized rumination of which he seems fond, and if he were handling other material...
...sharpness, and their effective use of contrast, while his watercolors are no less excellent. Samuel M. Greene, another exhibitor, was a former Harvard student and instructor. The other members are King Coffin, Richard deMenocal, Laurence Kupferman, Arthur Louges, and Elizabeth Titcomb. Current guest artists' are John Gregory, Diane Nemerov, and Alphonso Ossorio...