Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grade in tutorial for credit, unlike course reduction, but this is not the stimulus; the spur to work in "99" courses comes from the requirement of laying one's work before a tutor who can examine and criticize it, and suggest further lines of study, new books to read, new people...
...Richards, University Professor, will read from his own poetry today at 4:30 in Harvard 1. The Harvard Advocate will sponsor the reading, which is open to the public. Richards will be introduced by Boston poet Robert T. S. Lowell...
Frost will read his poetry to Adams men tonight at 8 p.m. in the dining hall. He will meet with small discussion groups in the future, although he will not be in residence at the House...
Since their foremost concern is themselves-and the place they will have in society-they seem to read less for esthetic pleasure than for answers. They still study, though they do not imitate, such erstwhile heroes as Hemingway and Joyce, but the nearest thing they have to a U.S. literary ideal is Faulkner. James Gould Cozzens has made little impression on them. Students read Koestler, but Orwell gets a bigger play. Eliot holds his own, but as much for his criticism as for his poetry. Dylan Thomas is admired, but evokes no hysteria. Students still delve into Freud, but they...
...Consolidation. Even so, the present generation recognizes no single voice as its very own. In so complex a world, no one voice, or even a chorus of voices, would be enough. Rather than take on any untried creative artists, the young prefer to read what the New Critics have to say about the artists of yesterday. Mailer and Jones have had their brief fling, such as it was. Colin Wilson never achieved any vogue at all. There is no cult of the "beat generation," and the San Francisco literary renaissance has scarcely begun to penetrate the ivy. "Maybe," wrote Princeton...