Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Optimism in this same vein came in a rather light-hearted tone from Robert Lowell who, while commenting on Partisan Review, said, "Anyone must be impressed by a magazine which was against Stalin in 1936 and against Time in 1956." Rahv had previously attacked Time's article on the "reconciliation of American intellectuals...
Philip Rahv, editor of the Partisan Review and keynote speaker, termed the Little Magazine "an oasis of gratuity in a desert of utility" and pointed out that since 1912 these magazines have discovered 80 percent of all new novelists, poets, and critics...
However, there were soon others to contradict these points of view. William Barrett, formerly of Partisan Review, questioned the idea of freedom somewhat when he claimed that "the poets belong to the Little Magazine; they have no place else...
...topic at the public session on Monday will be "What Are Little Magazines For?". Participants will include Robert Giroux, vice-president of Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy; Philip Rahv, Editor of the Partisan Review; Henry Rago poet; Robert Lowell, Editor of Poetry, and Henry A. Kissinger, Editor of Confluence...
...relationship between the serious writer and the editor of the Little Magazine will be explored in the Tuesday conference, "Writers for the Little Magazine." Speakers will be Frederick Morgan, Editorial Director of The Hudson Review; William Barrett, formerly of Partisan Review; John Sweeney, curator of the Farnsworth and Poetry Rooms in Lamont; and William Y. Elliott, Director of the Summer School...