Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...none has done more as a critic to keep this distinction clear or more as a poet to illustrate it than bush-bearded, 42-year-old Englishman William Empson, who now lives by choice in Peiping. For years Empson's work has been admired by people who would put their minds on it, and either ignored or jeered at by a greater number who gave it a fast superficial reading. The first U.S. publication of his collected poems means that the first party may be making a little headway...
...while teaching in Tokyo and Peiping, Empson began to put together a poetry of his own. Some of his early verses now seem overstrained, jammed with more allusions than anything this side of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. But he was probably the first man anywhere to shoulder the brand-new sky of the Cambridge physicists and astronomers and jostle intelligible poetry...
During the war, Empson worked in England for the BBC; he married, and then returned to Peking National University, where he intends to stay. Last summer, however, he taught at Kenyon College, in Ohio-a gentle, wiry little man who, as one friend put it, "wandered around in a cloud of black beard, talking animatedly to himself...
Bottleneck. In Horsham, England, police were making little progress in solving a burglary until they put some extra men on the case to help Police Sergeant William J. Wykes, got results when Wykes was arrested as the culprit...
...Tell Me. In Atlanta, when Holdup Victim D. M. Strickland got so jittery that he could not identify his assailants, police put Strickland in the lineup, had the two confessed gunmen pick him from the group...