Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next year the 300th birthday celebration will be in full swing, with a Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences scheduled for August 31 to September 12. At this Conference leading scholars of the world have been invited to deliver lectures and read papers in all fields of learning...
...dramatic poem in the full meaning of the term. That poem demonstrated, one may venture to suggest, the virtues and vices of Eliot's poetic method. His dramatic monologues--learned and concentrated and imbued with a strange rhythm--never reached a wide audience; they appealed to the widely read expert--the expert in the reading of poetry--in his study; they were not and are not popular poems. On the other hand, poetic names, whether they be tragedies, comedies, or historical plays, have only one legitimate excuse for being: they exist in order to be performed on the stage. Stage...
Professor Munn will speak on Milton's "Lycidas" in Sever at 9. There's an interesting hour or so that may be spent in the Widener Room reading some old rules on games and sports. And then, there's the Peace Meeting and Professor Langer tonight. Read your morning news, gentleman, and come early...
...world of current affairs. Today's newspaper is as hard to find in Widener as a note of optimism in a Hardy novel. There is indeed a small alcove in the periodical room which is devoted to the newspaper, where yesterday's New York Times can be read after a considerable wait. Other dailies of doubtful importance may be had slightly more than a week after publication, and one, it seems, can't get past the fatal fascination of October 13. Back numbers, or rather, further back numbers, gather dust in the inaccessible stacks...
...cans rust because they are only tin-plated, but the Futurist poems of Dr Marinetti are sold in books with pages of pure tin which cannot rust, that they may be read in the most distant future A dynamic eccentric who is acknowledged by artists and art critics to have founded and vastly stimulated the whole Futurist school, Poet Marinetti leaves others to carve, paint and sketch (see cut) while he pioneers. In tactile sensation Dr. Marinetti adventures by turning out all the lights and reveling with his disciples in the feel cheese crinkled paper, pearls, nutmeg graters, alabaster, jade...