Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard's junior class, a onetime member of Yale's present senior class, one Lucius Beebe. After three years of moon-calfing about in New Haven, Student Beebe is in a position to tell Harvard men much about their Eli contemporaries. A bookish, loose-tongued fellow, with poetic ideas and no great respect for conventions, he is willing to make a public stir in the columns of the Crimson, Harvard's live undergraduate daily. Last autumn he supplied a comparison of Yale and Harvard rather flattering to the latter (TIME, Nov. 30). Last week he revisited...
...making such criticisms of a Yale man's productions, but what have these college-boy partisanships to do with serious matters of artistic beauty where large and vital loyalties are at stake? Suppose a Yale critic were to impugn the taste, which should set up a piece of poetic sentimentality like, let us say. Longfellow's "Psalm of Life" as a model and touchstone for young lovers of poetry. Should we not, Harvard and Yale men alike, regard him as performing an important public service? Yet the "Psalm of Life" is almost good as compared with "The Lamp...
...gazelle hound, the only one of its species ever seen in Manhattan, a sly dog that looked for all the world like a cross between a collie and a greyhound. There were four papillons (little spaniels rechristened by the French because their alert bearing and erect ears reminded poetic fanciers of a butterfly). There was one blue-blooded pug, last survivor of a breed that once prowled in every lady's chamber. There were hundreds of airdales, Dobermann pinschers, sealinghams, Scotch terriers, bulldogs, griffons, sheepdogs, collies, setters, pointers, springer spaniels, foxhounds. But among them only a few received the accolade...
...cloyingly sensuous in image, thought and deed. He told Mrs. Toon in his note that he was "bathing his brow in the perfume of waterlilies." The season previous his play, Salome, had been refused a license. In a few months he was to publish The Sphinx, a poetic catalog of "amours frequent and fine," dedicated to one Marcel Schwob. He had played and acted many variations upon his epigram, "Industry is the root of all ugliness." The next year, 1895, he was to be branded publicly and sent to prison for perverted practices...
PETER PANTHEISM-Robert Haven Schauffler-Macmillan ($2). Mr. Schauffler is an unregenerate word-and-phrase addict, or more politely, a poetic philologist. Give him a simple declarative idea and he will repeat it to you in a dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest...