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...possible 800). More decisive were written essays and proof of intellectual curiosity. Instead of summer loafing, next fall's incoming freshmen were busy last week perusing a list of prescribed books, from Edith Hamilton's The Greek Way to Western Civilization and Calvin Hall's A Primer of Freudian Psychology to William Golding's Lord of the Flies...
...enigma remains, and it is to the task of "reading it" that the editors of The Achievement of Wallace Stevens have collected 19 critical essays written over the four decades of Stevens' life as a poet. As a primer of Stevens, as it is also supposed to be, the collection provides only a finicky mosaic, and most of the essays concern Harmonium, a collection of Stevens' work only...
...mean taking a trip to the mountains to gather material for class. One group spent a day on Mount Baldy last winter, played happily in the snow, then came back to school to have their teacher record their conversation. The result is Midtown's beginning-readers' primer, a work of the children's own creation: "Snow in the mountains. It looked smoggy. It looked frosty. It looked foggy. It looked dark. It felt cold. Then it rained. Then it hailed. Then it snowed...
...stock petting situation. Later that night the heroine's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, smarmy, gabby, hypocritical, vicious and even fat old slob of a mother (Audrey Christie), a living list of everything lousy that has ever been said about womanhood, reads her daughter a puritan's primer of sexual misconceptions: "Boys don't respect a girl they can go all the way with. Anyway, no nice girl has those feelings...
Died. Kenneth Flexner Fearing, 59, minor Kipling of the asphalt jungle, a Chicago corporation lawyer's son who became a proletarian poet during the Depression, a pseudonymous pulp-primer and novelist of such high-voltage thrillers as The Big Clock; of cancer; in Manhattan...