Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Voices has modesty and some good writing on its side. The Harvard community has been known to read anything that was worth reading--even in long hand. And the gentlmanly leisure with which the editors approach the business of putting out a magazine is a lollipop in the long hotsummer of intense young men and their ambitious literature...
About 30 years ago several serious undergraduates at Vanderbilt College in Tennessee got together, and started to write poetry and read it to each other under the tutelage of a young faculty member named John Crown Ransom. Last week these undergraduates, who called themselves "Fugitives," met to honor Ransom in his 70th year, and gave a series of readings that gave the audience some idea of the South and its poetry...
...read some of his "tragic" poems--"Dead Boy," "Janet Walking,"--and one of his metaphysical poems, "Persistent Explorer," of a man "who knows he is not going to find anything...
...metaphysical commitment," he continued, "a poet goes into fantasies." He read the humorous "Captain Carpenter," and some nonsense poems: "Our Two Worthies," "Her Eyes,"--a "vindictive" poem about a woman who "came to our house too much" and "was taller than I,"--and the "Survey of Literature...
...victims. Tibor Dery's Behind the Brick Wall tells a story in which impoverished factory workmen are forced to steal, workers' "trials" force pathetic culprits into suicide, and decent men in positions of power are made literally sick by the actions they must take. No one can read it without briefly sharing the sickness...