Word: ransoming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...order to pay their legal fees, which could amount to $100,000, the family has started a fund-raising drive called 'A Freedom Fund for Timothy Leary and Family.' They will use as their motto, 'Timothy Leary Kidnapped by United States Government Officials; $100,000 Ransom Needed; Family Forced...
...brides have received such a glittering dowry. For the Kenyon, under the editorship of Critic-Poet John Crowe Ransom for 20 years, became an inspired and inspiring instrument of criticism, offering the work of R.P. Blackmur, Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks and William Empson...
Though its emphasis was on criticism-what Ransom christened the "New Criticism," with a stress on close textual analysis-the Kenyon also published fine poetry. Its first issue carried the work of a 22-year-old student at Kenyon College named Robert Lowell. Other issues ran a lot of early Dylan Thomas, much of Wallace Stevens and, later, some James Dickey. Its four issues a year, published in paperback format, were a delight to discriminating readers around the world, from Nehru to Ernest Hemingway...
Middlebrow Raid. The Kenyon changed direction in the '60s. Under Novelist Robie Macauley, chosen by Ransom to succeed him as editor, it paid more attention to fiction and broad essays on contemporary culture. Macauley may have been right to de-emphasize criticism. The nation's new crop of critics were more scholastic and often imitative. But the lure of little literary journals meant nothing to the new writers of the decade, who could find big money and broader fame in relatively large-circulation magazines like Esquire, Harper's and Atlantic. As Macauley, now fiction editor of Playboy...
...none materializes, the journal's epitaph could be a paraphrase of a sentiment expressed by Ransom about a poet in the Kenyon in 1964: Having achieved all the wisdom that was available to it, the Kenyon was ready to subside, happy but used up, into the annihilation of death...