Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zealous Jesuit and a poet with a substantial Catholic following is Rev. Leonard Feeney, 39, author of Fish on Friday, Riddle and Reverie, Boundaries. Dark, wiry Father Feeney taught English at Boston College from the time of his ordination nine years ago until he lately joined the Jesuit weekly, America, as columnist. As a guest preacher, he mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral the Sunday before Christmas and, conscious of the superb sounding-board which that great fane afforded him, sermonized on a subject which he had half-whimsically, half-seriously pondered. Said Father...
Small colleges, like small countries, are often more fertile of ideas than big ones. Last week came news of an unusual idea from small Hiram College (enrollment: 325) in Hiram, Ohio. The alma mater of Poet Vachel Lindsay and of U. S. President James A. Garfield, who was once (1857-63) its principal when it was named Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, Hiram started a summer school in 1931 on the "intensive study" plan. Instead of working on a number of things at once, Hiram students spent six weeks exclusively on one subject. Two years ago young President Kenneth Irving Brown...
...Artist Jorgensen moved away from Yosemite to build another home, entirely of boulders, at Carmel-by-the-Sea, within pistol shot of the homes of Poet Robinson Jeffers and the late Lincoln Steffens, but he continued to visit Yosemite from time to time, continued to paint it. In June 1935, Chris Jorgensen died...
Died. Luigi Pirandello, 69, metaphysical playwright, member of the Italian Academy, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature; of pneumonia; in Rome. A spry, goat-bearded poet, novelist and schoolteacher, he turned to playwriting at 50, achieved fame in 1920 with Six Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR-Benjamin Brawley-University of North Carolina Press ($1). Lifeless biography of the poet who rose from a Dayton, Ohio elevator operator to a position as the most celebrated of Negro writers, died...