Word: sissman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best part of the issue is the poetry. The Garrison Prize poems, "England, 1935," by L. E. Sissman, and William Morgan's "Two Hymn Tunes," are sonorous works. Sissman's piece shows the author's ear for sound ("Battersea's four gaunt towers in their dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived...
...Lloyd Mckim Garrison Poetry Prize of $175 and a silver medal has been awarded to Louis Edward Sissman '48 of Boston and Lowell House, the Faculty announced yesterday. His winning poem was entitled 'Elegy and Reflection...
...first issue of the newest Annex venture in the literary field will hit the newsstands on Tuesday, Irene Tinker, Radcliffe '49 announced yesterday. The initial issue of "Radditudes" will feature contributions by E. Edmund Ayers '47 and Lee Sissman...