Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon had a Writers' Project office in every city of 10,000, at least one writer or field worker in each of the U. S.'s 3,000 counties. State directors included 16 newspapermen and women, seven novelists, nine college professors and instructors, three historians, a poet, a bookseller, a dramatist...
Those who think of authors as being rent-free tenants of an ivory tower might be surprised at the list of well-known U. S. writers who have been glad to get on the WPA payroll: Poet Conrad Aiken, for example, who wrote the memorable description of Deerfield, Mass, in the Massachusetts State guide. Idaho director was impassioned, temperamental Novelist Vardis Fisher (In Tragic Life) who rushed out the 431-page Idaho guide ahead of all rivals, promptly started work on a comprehensive Idaho Encyclopedia, scheduled for publication this spring. For Louisiana the director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children...
...MEMOIR OF AE-John Eglinton-Macmillan ($3.50). Simple, direct, sometimes moving, biographical essay on the late George William Russell, whose career as a distinguished Irish poet ran parallel to his less happy life as an ardent, unpractical, outspoken politician...
...references to Theban nightclubs, and the sprinkling of slang did not sound forced. Jean Cocteau, once called "the most charming young man in Paris," has always been a good showman. He has frequently set Paris on her ear with his expressionistic ballets. His surrealist film, The Blood of a Poet, produced visceral chills wherever it was jeered or cheered. His pictures drawn under the influence of opium are monstrous and unforgettable. Critics have found Cocteau difficult to classify. His Oedipus says, "Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That...
...sang Poet Archibald MacLeish in his Frescoes For Mr. Rockefeller's City. The sound kernel of truth in Poet MacLeish's observation has been clinically noted by Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas. At the New York Academy of Medicine last week Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard, embryologist, morphologist and anatomist at Cornell Medical School, offered a possible explanation...