Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wallace (47) and Will Irwin (50) are brothers of more popular success, certainly, than the poetic Benét brothers (TIME, Oct. 1). Of late years Will Irwin has devoted much of his time to the spreading of peace propaganda throughout the U. S. Wallace has been busy writing short stories and novels. His latest, Lew Tyler's Wives, is a study of the two marriages of one delightful but irresponsible gentleman...
...published a Who's Who of its contributors, in the manner of many periodicals. I found myself unconsciously turning to the end of the present number to discover something concerning Mr. J. N. Leonard, the author of "Derga Fer Rogan". This fantasy, a felicitous combination of wit, satire, and poetic imagination, all compounded with gusto, is one of the best pieces of work I have read in some time. It is, of course, uneven; there are occasional lapses into--well, no, not cheapness, but cleverness. On the whole, however, it is brilliant without being flashy...
...first two of these plays were written by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1918, an award made but twice to English speaking men. "The Farewell Curse" is a poetic playlet of love and duty, which endeavors to develop the idea that learning without love is incomplete. "The Maharani of Arakan" is a romantic comedy, and to those who see below the surface of the allegory there is the lesson of the endeavor of Englishmen and Hindus toward reconciliation...
Northwestern is to take less heroic measures to the same effect. Representatives of the fraternities and other groups of male students have agreed to join the young women of the university in celebrating three dateless nights in each week. The colloquialism " dateless " is not to be understood in the poetic sense. The young men are said to expect a resultant advance in scholarship and, incidentally, more conference championships...
...World Court. The Brick Church, Fifth Ave., New York, is having a pro-League course led by such men as John H. Clarke (page 2), Irving Fisher and Hamilton Holt. Classes at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Registration $3.00. Nation-wide distribution of a nonsectarian, poetic prayer for the " Divine Alliance of Nations " is also being pushed. The prayer is written by Dr. Harry E. Fosdick...