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...Cummings '15 concludes his Charles Eliot Norton lectures tonight at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre with "I and Self-Discovery." He will talk for a half-hour and read related poetry for 15 minutes as in his two previous lectures...
...Once Again ..." The critics next day were sharply divided. Mildred Norton of the Los Angeles Daily News called the cantata an "essay in boredom," and added: "The most invigorating sound I heard was a restive neighbor winding his watch." Wrote Albert Goldberg of the Times: "Perhaps only a musician can appreciate the extreme technical discipline involved ... It makes no obvious appeal to anything within the range of the average listener's experience, yet by its very starkness it creates a perfect setting . . . for the old English texts involved. Once again, it would seem, Stravinsky has opened new paths...
FLEET ADMIRAL KING (674 pp.)-Ernesf J. King and Walter M. Whitehill-Norton...
Chatauqua comes to the University tonight, at least at first glance. No less than five lectures, including the second in the Charles Eliot Norton series given this year by E. E. Cummings '15, will be on tap here...
Recently, new honors have come to him in a rush: the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award at the University of Chicago, the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, and the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard, where Cummings (who graduated in 1915) will give six lectures, beginning this week...