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...aside from a startling short story by Mark Schorer, which, incidentally, gives full scope to the unchallenged talent of the Advocate's new illustrator, Arthur de la Guardia, the balance of this over-long issue is little more than a tribute to the editor who single-handled amassed this list of famous names, but who apparently could not reject the cast-offs to those authors who print their best elsewhere. The contributions of William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes, and Horace Gregory are less than shamefully insignificant. Marya Zaturenska's "Organ, Harp, and Violin," a palpable parroting of Dryden's "song...
Those receiving the awards were Hugh C. Cutler, research associate in the Botanical Museum, Richard E. Schultes '37, research associate in the Botanical Museum, Lloyd A. Metzler, instructor in Economic, Gordon N. Ray, instructor in English, Marck Schorer, Briggs-Copeland Faculty Instructor in English Composition, Rolf Singer, research associate in Mycology, and Otto Benesch, research fellow and special lecturer at Wellesley College...
...Guggenheim Fellowships, usually amounting to $2,500 for a year, are granted to research workers, scholars, artists and others who have shown outstanding ability in their fields. Since its establishment 17 years ago the Foundation has granted 1,210 Fellowships with awards totalling $2,488,000. Ray and Schorer have both been awarded Fellowships before...
...SCHORER'S second novel, "The Hermit Place," is a brilliant presentation of certain characters and the doom they brought upon themselves by their own falsity. They all deserved to be damned; indeed they carried their damnation with them. But the book does not belong on the shelf of modern pessimism. It is neither nihilistic nor gloomy. These people are only one set, a segregation of incorrigibles. They have worldly circumstance in their favor, but their destruction comes from within. They live and breathe--Mr. Schorer's powers of characterization are extraordinary--but luckily they are only a segment...
...truth and culture, a place where intellect raises man from his smallness--shameful because our motto so brazenly flaunts itself now, as obvious camouflage--"Erudito et religio!"--we have struck our colors, once more, to convention and prejudice! --Duke University Chronicle, April 4, 1941. THE HERMIT PLACE, by Mark Schorer. Random House, New York...