Word: poe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French believe in making schoolchildren work hard. At nine, a French child is already being stuffed with Chateaubriand and Rousseau; he parses sentences from Hugo and learns all about the Edict of Nantes. At 14, he must begin to dip (in English) into the works of Swift and Poe. By the time he gets to his "baccalaureat" exam, he must know his Tacitus and answer such questions as "What did P. A. Touchard mean when he said of Montaigne: 'Before everything and despite everything, Montaigne is alive...
Hand to the plow, which won the first prize, boasts a very clear, almost slick style. This macabre story of a subtle murder, emblemished with crisp dialogue and painstaking detail, seems like a strange marriage of Edgar Allen Poe and Hamlin Garlin. Miss Leonard has constructed her slice of horror carefully and correctly, slipping the stilleto in exactly the right place at the right time. Although this is a cool, professional job, it does not have the strength of personal involvement that the Stewart story...
There's nothing wrong with imagination. Most great writers have delved into fantasy at one time or another. Verne, Wells, Poe and others are revered figures. Yet people scoff at the new stories in the genre...
...Williams College voted 509 to 390 against making their fraternities open to all. Instead of taking in everyone who wants to join, Williams fraternities will go on just as before, leaving the usual unwanted minority to the non-fraternal Garfield Club. ¶Gift of the week: 50 Edgar Allan Poe items to the University of Virginia Library, from Manhattan Steamship Executive Clifton Waller Barrett (ex-'20). Among the treasures of Alumnus Poe, who left the university in 1826 because of a quarrel with his foster father: first editions of all his books, such manuscripts as a letter to Washington...
...Midwest showed signs of vigor. Hamlin Garland had begun to portray farm life as something more, or less, than an idyl. In the Far West lived the gnarled misanthrope, Ambrose Bierce, writing creepy Gothic tales that pointed back to Poe and forward to Faulkner. But in general, Brooks acknowledges, it was a time of decidedly minor craftsmen, a dry season between fertile ones in American writing. The turn came as the old century flickered...