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...took many years before a public nerved to the crankier literary difficulties of Proust and Joyce could understand the intense beauty and relevance of James's mature novels (The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Wings of the Dove). Along with the other reprints, anthologies and critical studies of the James revival, The American Scene should encourage more & more U.S. readers to turn to his writing, as perhaps toward the peace of greatness...
Another curve, just as clearly obedient to the urgencies of the war, goes from the old familiar evaluations of Joyce and Proust to the athletic conclusion that "they both seem to me very sick men, giant invalids who, in spite of enormous talent, were crippled by the same disease, elephantiasis of the ego. They both attempted titanic tasks, and both failed for lack of the dull but healthy quality without which no masterpiece can be contrived, a sense of proportion...
Radcliffe enrollment figures this summer show a trend toward English reading courses, with a secondary preference for Social Relations. Statistics Wednesday placed Comparative Literature 65, Proust, Joyce, and Mann, in the lead with 17 'Cliffedwellers in tow, while English 24a, Shakespearean tragedy, was a close second with...
...intricacies of various female minds were probed for a possible explanation of these trends. Typical students interviewed agreed Comparative Literature 65 was "a hard course." This phrase was interpreted to mean the lectures are conducted on a high intellectual plane and reading assignments are relatively long. Proust, Joyce, and Mann have great appeal as modern writers, and the lecturer, Associate Professor Harry T. Levin '33 was termed "impressive...
...bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti says, "is very musical and neurotic like all of us in the house...