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During his 83 years of life. Painter John Marin knew both popular and critical acclaim, but there were times when he felt a touch of bitterness. While the public and critics applauded his fluid watercolors, his oils were so assiduously ignored that Marin used to refer to his ever-increasing stock of unsold canvases as his "Dark Room Collection." Since his death in 1953. admirers have been trying to focus more light on the dark room. Their efforts came to a climax last week with the opening of a major Marin retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington...
...Nash says that he is surprised "that no one has ever bothered to thank Frank Lunden for the fine job he and his staff are doing . . . ." I now refer to the CRIMSON of Friday, Nov. 13, 1953. This same Mr. Frank Lunden admitted saving blocks of tickets for some of the final clubs. Mr. Lunden said, "A few clubs asked for this accommodation at the beginning of the year and I gave it. I only considered it a slight generosity." And in the CRIMSON of Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1961, with regard to the discomforts suffered by students waiting in line...
...example, the KKK-sponsored magazine cites the "President of the Harvard University Student Body, [who] is what the Communists and mind-washed brain trusters refer to as an extreme right-winger. Attempts have been made to smear this young man, a Mr. Phillips, and to give him the silent treatment even in the campus newspaper, the CRIMSON...
...book is very largely made up of conversations among a group of soldiers it follows from an Indo-Chinese prison camp, to a leave in Metropolitan France, and finally to action in Algeria. These conversations sound totally abstracted from reality, because the milieu to which they refer -- and which gives them meaning -- is not described in the novel. Larteguy neither describes the military frustrations of the Army, nor evokes the corrosive feeling of futility which has eaten away its pride and sense. All this -- like feeling for the historical significance the Army's plight -- is assumed in the reader...
...fact is that Harvard plays up scholarship at the expense of creativity, and most students accept this, either not creating at all or riddling their work with signs of scholasticism (what percentage of Advocate poems refer to the Metaphysical Poets, in extenso?). This position--that there is little or no common ground between creativity and scholarship--is one stand; I wish to strike at least a small blow for the other, and say that noncreative scholarship in any field is dry and sterile. Certainly in science, certainly in philosophy, hard steady work and really original thinking (the two hallmarks...