Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles of sign-swinging Princeton men, paced by 32 military bands, wound in & out of the campus to University Field. At their head was orange-bereted Marshal Melville Dickenson, portlier now than when he captained Princeton's undefeated 1922 football team. Round University Field the alumni marched in review-past President Harold Dodds and a handful of pre-1896 Tigers (their joints no longer limber enough for P-rading.) Then everybody sang Old Nassau, and settled down to watch the ballgame. As usual, Yale won; this time...
...Brooklyn specialist, Dr. William Lieberman, is one of the foremost U.S. authorities on the history of the enema. Last week, in the Review of Gastroenterology, he wrote with scholarly authority on his cathartic theme...
Another, no less remarkable, was the Little Review, founded in Chicago in 1914 by a woman of even greater vim. Margaret Anderson wanted to fill it with "the best conversation the world has to offer," and for some years she pretty well succeeded. She lived for months in a tent by the shore of Lake Michigan in order to put out the magazine. In 1918, after moving to Manhattan, she began a three-year struggle to publish Joyce's Ulysses-in which Uncle Alfred, disguised as a Dublin Jew, suffered the most exhaustive and stylistically lavish scrutiny...
Radical esthetics made a brew with radical politics among the little magazines that now appeared. Thinkers in the New Masses and the Left Review suggested that Uncle Alfred should be written about primarily for Uncle Alfred's hired hands. The Partisan Review became "almost regularly representative of the best of modern writing"-first with Marxist, then Trotskyist policies, and finally partisan of nothing much but good writing...
...Southern Review, published on a grant from Louisiana State University (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), brought together the "experimental" and the "Academic," civilizing both. Cleanth Brooks Jr. and Robert Penn Warren, the editors, were writers and teachers respected in both professions; both professions lamented when the Southern Review's seven-year term...