Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toynbee apologized to Poetess Sitwell: "We are involved in a most complicated failure of communication." But the Observer's next issue quoted a third reader who distinctly remembered "a poem by Miss Sitwell which includes an allusion to 'Emily-colored hands' raising the blinds in a children's bedroom...
...write any poem referring to Emily-colored hands," hissed Miss Sitwell by post the following week. Other contributors meanwhile speculated on Emily as a color. "Mauve," said one. "Yellow," said another. "The only Emily I ever met was an enormous black Madrassi ayah," wrote a Mr. Mclntyre. "I regret his limited social opportunities," answered Miss Sitwell, "but I cannot be held responsible for them." One phase of the argument was at last tied down when a schoolmistress named Josephine Malone reported a mistake in a sixth-form handbook of poetry, in which the editor had fastened Emily-colored hands...
...remaining contributions are less noteworthy. Lyon Phelps' poem on a bar-fly conveys a few impressions, but is hindered by a choppy use of words. George Kelly contributes an interesting review of Conrad; also a long poem, which is not very successful in welding concrete images to abstract introspection. In another review, John Wansbrough tries and fails to say something interesting about Santayana's philosophy in a space too brief for definition of terms...
...when food war broke out between classes. Each class ate in a different room, but communication was possible through the portholes, and on this particular Sunday night, all kinds of edibles flew through the air with the greatest of ease from one room to the next. A poem commemorated the event, which brought aging graduate John Adams to propose the revival of the practice of flogging students, and a few meaty lines should convey the spirit of the evening...
Shocked, Radcliffe girls banded together and approved plans to keep men out of the dorms after 10 p.m. on weekdays. The Harvard reaction to that can be illustrated by reprinting a poem that was sent to the CRIMSON by three Harvard men, in spiritual collaboration with Andrew Marvell...