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...dean's new desk will be no honorarium. The 115-year-old bank has risen to eleventh largest in the nation under Executive Committee Chairman Ransom M. Cook, 68, who gave up the chairmanship last fall, and current Chairman H. Stephen Chase, 64. When the two retire-Cook at year's end, Chase next May-Wells Fargo's reins will go to Arbuckle, 55, and Richard P. Cooley, who was appointed president and chief executive officer last November at the lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: The Dean's New Desk | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

John Crowe Ransom says that Jarrell wore a "triple crown"-"a pure Pity, an embracing Weltschmerz, and a wry ironic Wit." The pity sometimes seemed absent from his own reviews. Alfred Kazin recalls a sideswipe in which Jarrell wrote that some crypto poet's work had "hidden treasures," but that finding them was "like looking for the gold in sea water." This sort of wit provided the sparkle to his otherwise brackish novel, Pictures from an Institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet Who Was There | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

Heady Summer. Tennessee in the '30s was the center of a poetic renaissance. Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom, fathers of the "New Criticism," had done much to impose form and coherence on the gaseous and self-indulgent free-verse fashion of the time. Thus Lowell at 20 found himself at a reform school-poetic reform. When he arrived "ardent and eccentric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...returned to Cambridge to muddle through a bit more and, although it seemed impious to his parents for a Lowell to reject Harvard, he was allowed to transfer to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where Ransom and Randall Jarrell now taught. They were to make the Kenyon Review into a dominant force in American poetry and criticism for the next three decades. "I am the sort of poet I am because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...heavy burden of learning and the rigorous formal demands of the New Criticism of Ransom and Tate dammed up the first freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated by restraint. He emerged from Kenyon summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and class valedictorian. He also emerged a Roman Catholic convert and a husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

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