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Similarly, Frankenberg shows how Poet E. E, Cummings intends his wrenchings of language, typography and punctuation as devices to praise the individual "human" in man and to satirize his faceless "public" front; how the delicate verses of Poetess Marianne Moore pounce on details of sight and touch in a way prose seldom does ("the blades of the oars moving together like the feet of water-spiders...
...Sitwell returned for her last group of poems. Though a lady (in front of me, this time) loudly announced that "she might as well be speaking in a foreign language" it was now becoming easier to catch some of the words as they rose and fell from the poetess' lips. Even without the meaning, the sound was an exceedingly beautiful...
More than 200 modern verse enthusiasts crowded into Sever 11 yesterday afternoon to hear poetess Marianne Moore recite four of her lyrics in one of the shortest Morris Gray readings ever held. The whole meeting lasted less than half an hour...
Died. Genevieve Taggard, 53, much-anthologized poetess (For Eager Lovers, Calling Western Union) and biographer (The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson); of uremia; in Manhattan. Miss Taggard scored an early success with slight lyrics, later slipped when she tried to weight her verses with social significance...
Died. Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 61, Columbia professor of anthropology; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. A poetess who first took up anthropology as a hobby, Dr. Benedict wrote her monumental Patterns of Culture to document her theory that whole societies behave like human personalities. When she co-authored The Races of Mankind in 1943 to refute the Nazi master-race doctrine, a House committee found her statements on racial equality "controversial," banned the book from Army distribution...