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...customari ly listed his occupation on income tax forms as "writer-farmer." Unfashionably, he dealt with the grand intellec tual themes that have traditionally pre occupied those who love wisdom: God, the nature of man, the meaning of life. Indeed, when he died last week at 92, in the rude stone house he had built largely with his own hands, one learned American philosopher said, not unkind ly, that Hocking had always thought "more with his heart than his head...
Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson, 69, who has built a large part of his effort to unify English and French Canada by cooperating with the government of Quebec's Liberal Premier Jean Lesage, got a rude jolt last week. Lesage, 54, who had even been mentioned as a possible Pearson successor, was drummed out of power in one of the biggest election upsets in recent Canadian history...
...afraid," wrote Robert Ely, editor-publisher of The Sixties, "this symposium will be another occasion for self-congratulation by little-magazine editors. So I will say a few rude words. American little magazines are for the most part utterly pointless. Almost all are mediocre. A near example is our host, The Carleton Miscellany. It has had a pointless quality about it ever since...
...That was rude enough, but Bly was not the only one with some bile to cough up. A surprising number of the 22 participating editors and former editors thought there was much awry with the proliferating little literary enterprises. Said one of the symposium contributors, William Mathes: "There must be some worth mentioning. I just haven't been able to think of any." One of the problems seemed to be an inevitable conformity. Said Jack Garlington of Western Humanities Review: "The fact that most of us belong to the same class -we're eggheads, whether we admit...
Posterity appreciates Paul Gauguin more than his contemporaries did. While he lived, the museums of his native France coldly refused him wall space. Until his death in 1903, his canvases found mostly a rude or indifferent market; later the bidding began to spiral out of sight: a single Gauguin was knocked down for $364,000 at Sotheby's in 1959. Posterity, in short, has caught up with Gauguin's notion of his own indisputable greatness. The matter of the Gauguin legend, however, is disputable, and this book ably succeeds in separating the facts from the romance...