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However professionally exciting it may be to hunt down water symbols in Poe, or Proust, or Pope, the humanist cannot forget that his primary responsibility is to the national culture, not to the Modern Language Association, and that oncoming generations, through they should be generously encouraged to believe that beauty is its own excuse for being, must also be strictly taught the changeless meaning of the three most powerful words in any dialect--justice, virtue, and love; concepts that arise out of history in spite of the fact that, or because, history too frequently denies them. The imperative task...
...Friday, though there were many encouraging developments. Sophomore Wally Grant, who now seems certain to start this Saturday, gained 101 yards in 9 carries from halfback. The figures will give both opposing coaches and junior Tom Bilodeau, now recovering from a pre-season injury, much to think about. Dave Poe, another sophomore back, flashed brilliant at times, also...
...Bryce's American Commonwealth. The committee tried to "avoid inflaming rivalry" by omitting all fiction by living American authors; had they not died recently, the library would not have Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway. But the American classics, old and new, are there: Emerson, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Henry Adams, Henry James, Mark Twain, O.Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Howells, Fitzgerald-and, should presidential browsers care, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women...
...play is written with Hellman's customary vigor and elegance, and James Poe's script incorporates almost all of it intact. What's more, Geraldine Page slithers through her role with the sinister sweetness of a chocolate-covered cobra, and Dean Martin demonstrates impressively that he can act. But something is terribly wrong with this picture. It is cold, mechanical, dead. The central situation is contrived, and the characters are about as sincerely Southern as a bouquet of nylon magnolia blossoms. Playwright Hellman left New Orleans when she was still a child, and time has strewn cobwebs...
Among the first bargains to be snapped up were a 29-volume set of Dickens ($6) a 10-volume Poe ($1.25) and a 17-volume complete Hawthorne ($3). An unidentified 'Cliffie out-maneuvered two Cambridge matrons for a rare $4 set of Casanova's Memoires...