Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides two Ogden Nash bonbons set to music by Norman Shapiro '51, Miss Wheeler's contemporary offerings included a pair of songs by Theodore Chanler. One of these, The Doves, is a poem by Leonard J. Feeney, a well-known Cambridge figure. It begins...
...picture of and the article about Regent Roy V. Harris of the University of Georgia reminds me of the little poem by Fred Allen: If a boy is big and his brain is small, He can always go to college and play football...
Poet-Novelist Robert Penn Warren received praise from the poets' critical claque for Brother to Dragons, but the sad truth was that this long narrative poem about a frontier murder was dull and prosy. In A Hopkins Reader, there was plenty of evidence, though not easy to read, to show why a Victorian Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins, is still an influence on poets writing today. And of U.S. poets today, no better sampling came along than New Poems, ably edited by Rolfe Humphries. The price...
...about 20 films in Hollywood, has written scenes and characters with the freshness-and some of the clean-limbed naiveté-of a first novelist. His dialogue is always clear and quick, and occasionally it reaches down to pluck some nerve of real human sensibility. Apart from the poem he gave one of the Confederate prisoners to speak ("Faith was ... a jungle/ Where two children trod/ Looking for violets/ Angleworms and God"), the bravos for Bravo should go largely...
...motorized wheelchairs. Hindmost in the magazine and in humor is "Informality at Yale," an ironic title because John H. Limpert says that the Yale men "Gothic town" do not have much informality. An "Old College Song" sings sharply of social pressure at Yale, and is notable as the one poem in this Lampoon...