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...this question, we simply shift the previous argument in reverse: criticism is no more at home with itself than art is. And isn't this as it should be? Isn't homesickness at the very heart of the human mystery? Just as that critical letter yearns to be a poem, so a poem strives to be life itself. Both the critic and the artist are responding to something other than themselves; they may differ in their description of what it is, but they share this common unhappy truth: that whatever it may be, they themselves are not really a part...
...discover these large designs, Commager had to pay infinite attention himself to Horace's constant changes in tone, and to his continual use of literary convention as a mask. In a single poem of thirty odd lines, Horace may shift many times between elegiac intensity and utter detachment. The pleasure of reading Horace is the pleasure of sensing these transitions; Commager has smoothed the road to Elysium...
...students, internationally minded as they are, have speedily responded to the new offer. Brookline sends as many telegrams in one Sunday night as Cambridge does in two weeks, he observed. A frequent habit of Harvard students, he added, is for three or four of them to send some "silly poem" to the President. By the time they said all they wanted to say, even after leaving off the salutation, they had gone so far over the 15 word limit that they didn't save money anyhow...
John J. Toomey, State Representative from Middlesex County, called Vellucci "a credit to the people of Cambridge and a representative of all the people." James J. Madden, a professor at the University of Dublin in Ireland, proposed an "Irish toast to Al" (a poem which the professor had composed himself) and then proceeded to tell several unscholarly jokes...
Robert B. Higgins' '63 poem "We Have Thought Too Much and Done Too Little" was awarded first prize in its area. "Barrow Grass" by George M. Friend '62 was second. In the oratory contest, John W. Price '62 was first with a speech of Burke's, while John T. Parker's '62 presentation, of Pericles Funeral Oration earned second price...