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Highlighting the work of poets Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, John Hawkes, Jr., Ruth Stone, and Seymour Lawrence, are Lauriat Lane's Garrison Prize Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
Kenneth Koch's verse, as he himself describes it, struts "on a pilgrimage of music." Exhibiting a lively manipulation of language, Koch, however, sometimes plays vaguely with ideas that fail to fit the form be constructs so well. Two poems by Seymour Lawrence, "City Nun," and "The Beggar," present an honest attempt by their author to escape the introspective not that seems to have enmeshed most young writers. Both Koch and Lawrence received honorable mention in the Garrison Prize competition...
...Seymour St. John, 35, nephew of Yale's President Charles Seymour and son of Choate Headmaster George C. St. John, succeeded his father...
...Sunday-supplement editors. Since her day the archipelago has been popularly regarded, at least by tabloid readers, as a lovers' Eden, with hibiscus and orchids everywhere and acquiescent beauty under every bush. But U.S. Army & Navy men who were stationed during the war on dry, red-dusty Seymour Island know better. So do Ainslie and Frances Conway of California, who homesteaded on Santiago and Floreana Islands before...
Previous forums have discussed such topics as "Costs of Government" and "The Future of Youth in the Republican Party." Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, and Congressman Christian E. Herter of Massachusetts addressed the group on these occasions. The subject of the next meeting, to be held in February, has not yet been selected...