Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, delivered the first of nine informal talks on English Poetry sponsored by the Poetry Room in Widener, yesterday afternoon...
...Delaware"-1,250,000 acres) near Corpus Christi, Texas has had a standing war with poachers. In 1936 Texas was stirred when Luther and John Blanton "crossed the wire" to shoot ducks, were never seen again. One night last week Game Wardens Dawson R. Murchison, Jack McCarley and Jim Robinson were patrolling the mesquite for night poachers-Mexicans or "plain whites" who sneak in after dark and shoot deer which they blind with car headlights or with jacklights fastened on their caps. Seeing two lights weaving through the brush, the wardens crouched until the poachers were a few paces away...
...Hollywood, two pictures based on the Musica scandal (see p. 29) were rushed into production: The Drug King, probably starring Donald Crisp (Warner Bros.); The Great Drug, Swindle, probably starring Edward G. Robinson (Columbia...
...Robinson Jeffers, California's unofficial laureate, this month published his Selected Poetry (Random House, $3.50). In its foreword he stated his poetic creed. He declared that "poetry must concern itself with (relatively) permanent things." His work at its best does give an impression of the emptiness of the American continent, an emptiness which the continent fills with (relatively) permanent things like forests, mountains, rivers and 130 million people, and which Jeffers, for the most part, fills with mythological personages, semi-scientific platitudes, nonpoetical intensities, and-for the pay-off-mental exhaustion...
Because his words are impersonally grandiose instead of personally grand, Robinson Jeffers, who in another place and another time might have been a prophet, is here & now a vasty poetaster...