Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freehand paraphrase of British Poet W. H. Auden, Bachelor Hammarskjold often declares: "Private faces should not be caught in public places"-and for some time after he became U.N. Secretary-General he was dismayed by the extent to which his private face was on public display. But he also inherited, as he once wrote, "a belief that no life was more satisfactory than one of selfless service to your country-or humanity. This service required sacrifice of all personal interests"-including, it soon became clear, the pleasures of anonymity. Hammarskjold came to recognize that in a job whose prestige comes...
Seldman Rodman is a poet interested in painting who was active politically during the '30's editing a magazine which attempted to explore American alternatives to Marxism. Mr. Rodman's concern for the man in the street later led him to try to reconcile folk poetry and the modern idiom in a series of anthologies of poetry. More recently he has been working on the problem of modern painting's failure to communicate to the mass audience. Rodman's thesis as it has developed in his books on art is that there has been too great an interest...
...Looking for Mr. Green, a welfare investigator ranges endlessly through a Chicago slum trying to give a relief check to a crippled Negro. In The Gonzaga Manuscripts, a dilettante fruitlessly combs Spain trying to buy the lost manuscripts of a dead poet. The stories suffer particularly from the fact that the leading characters are usually the dullest people in them. The reader of Seize the Day could do with less of regressive Tommy Wilhelm and more about rascally Dr. Tamkin, whose compelling eye and incessant tongue carry the story bracingly forward whenever he is onstage...
Last year's Charles Eliot Norton lecturer was Edwin Muir, the Scottish poet and critic. His general topic was "The Estate of Poetry." In the preceding years the lectureship was held by T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost and Igor Stravinsky...
...Institute. Based largely on huge blowups from a photo essay by Photographer John Szarkowski (The Idea of Louis Sullivan; University of Minnesota; $10), the exhibition reaffirms the reputation of Sullivan, the man his old pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright, still refers to as Lieber Meister, as the first U.S. poet of the skyscraper...