Word: rimbaud
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...David M. Landon '61 has been awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Award in Comparative Literature for an essay on Rimbaud...
...enrolled at Manhattan's Art Students League and began studying under Morris Kantor and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. but after four years he still had not found himself. "Even then. I was seeking what Rimbaud seemed to have found: 'New forms that the inventions of the unknown demand.' " So. in 1953. he settled in Paris in a large studio on the Left Bank. There, his present abstract-expressionist style of painting began to emerge...
Kingmaker . . . Making the election a battle was the idea of a tempestuous female kingmaker: Enid Starkie, Fellow of Somerville College, a brilliant Rimbaud scholar who pub-crawls about Oxford in bright red slacks and beret while smoking cigars. In 1951 she proposed that the chair actually be occupied by a poet. Her candidate: Poet C. Day Lewis. At once, her archrival, tweedy Helen Gardner, Fellow of St. Hilda's College, now famed as an oddly prim defender of Lady Chatterley's Lover, entered Novelist (The Screwtape Letters) C. S. Lewis. In the ensuing battle of Lewis v. Lewis...
...King. Soon tongues were wagging over the sherry: "A vote for Leavis is a vote for Lawrence ... A vote for Starkie is a vote for Rimbaud ... A vote for Gardner is a vote for Chatterley ... A vote for Graves is a vote for Graves." Candidate Starkie crowed happily that Oxford "is the most spiteful place I've ever been in," and made her point by scoffing at her rivals...
...members of Die Brücke endlessly read Verlaine, Rimbaud, D'Annunzio and Nietzsche. They drank into the night, took midnight swims with their female models, absorbed everything from the fiery swirls of Van Gogh to the dramatic African masks that were being displayed in the Dresden Zoological and Ethnographical Museum. By 1911, when they decamped to Berlin. Kirchner had developed a boldly distinctive style of his own, and he had begun painting the famed street scenes that were to be his forte (see color...