Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading of poetry and prose, sponsored by the Advocate, is scheduled for Thursday at 4 p.m. in Harvard 4. John Hollander '55, a junior fellow and music director for Adams House's production of "Alcestis" will open by reading his poetry. Paula C. Budlong '56 will read a short story, which will be followed by Peter Heliczer '58 reading poetry...
...poetry in this issue for the most part cannot compare with the prose. There is one good poem, however, Jean Valentine's love lyric, which because of its simplicity and sincerity effectively evokes the essence of a feeling. It is heartening to see one college poet who seems more interested in communicating something than in displaying a developing erudition, or in proving "maturity" by affecting a depression which is obviously not too deeply felt. Unfortunately, the abstract-term-so-that-they'll-know-I'm-intellectual school is heavily represented in this issue by Ernest Wight's "catatonic crocodile--bogged...
...system. After running the Pope's proposals through the propaganda mill, the Communist press exploited the first two points, which the Soviet Union favors, and ignored the third, which the U.S. considers essential. (Part of the U.S. press, by failing to read carefully the Pope's intricate prose, distorted his message almost as much as did the Communists.) Last week, the Voice of America acclaimed the Pope's plan and denounced the Communists for twisting it. The point hammered home by the Voice: Pope Pius clearly linked all three of his proposals, did not advance them separately...
...Roses, not feeling or poetry. The verbal gifts are there. But too often they miss magic by striving for it, or seem almost to be spoofing the Irish love of words. But where Synge, in The Playboy, could spoof that love and in the very process make prose beautiful, a more reflective O'Casey mingles honest rhythms with gaudy ones, and sharp speech with fine writing. The play palpably bears his signature, but with too many loops and flourishes, and in purple...
...When any schollar is able to read and understand Tully, Virgil or any such ordinary Classicall Authors, and can readily make and speake or write true Latin in prose and hath skill in making verse, and is Competently grounded in the Greeke language: so as to be able to Construe and Grammatically to resolve ordinary Greeke, as in the Greeke Testament, Isocrates, and the minor poets, or such like, having withall meet Testimony of his towardlinesse, hee shall be capable of his admission into the Colledge...