Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest event of the forum season was supposed to be a publlic reading by Fugitive Poets in honor of John Crowe Ransom, Kenyon College poet-critic who turned 70 earlier this year. The Fugitives wrote poetry as undergraduates at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in the mid-Twenties, under the tutelage of Ransom, then a young member of the school's faculty. After Ransom's moving reading the night before, four other Fugitives and two guests poets read from their poetry and patted each other on the back. After a while, the latter activity exceeded the former, and when the group...
...knowing "one's identity with each of life's facets," according to an editorial by Mr. Robinson. But he indicated in an interview yesterday that he didn't plan to have a bug about such philosophical matters as did, for instance, the editors of i.e., The Cambridge Review. I read the editorial on identity backwards and forwards and in the bathtub, and could find no real clue to the riddle of identity. Mr. Robinson comes out on the side of simplicity, I think, and that is praiseworthy. "...Simplicity," he says, "may be an intentional affirmation that the core of life...
...wonder if it's worth the game/To be thus affable and tame?" and gives us two more poems as well. And other poets, too interesting to mention, are also there. The only good bit is an amusing lazy poem called "Summer" written by Dorothy Pollock-Watson and fun to read...
...space; it is 7,000 years ago and now." To the foundry workers, Lipchitz is a hard taskmaster. "What interests me now is to find new paths," he says, and hands them yet another casting problem. But it is just this drive that leads Britain's Sir Herbert Read (who ranks Lipchitz with such sculptors as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Brancusi and Giacometti) to say: "From the early days of cubism to the present, Lipchitz has been in the forefront. He has extended the whole conception and technique of bronze casting...
...life in Lucania, an even poorer region, and the book brought him such fame that he now writes with a special sense of mission about the Italian poor. His weaknesses are 1) too much self-consciousness in his pleading, 2) too little skepticism respecting the left. Yet few will read Author Levi's Impressions of Sicily without feeling a forgiving sympathy for both these weaknesses...