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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Conant; Roosevelt describes him as "a physically unobtrusives sort of man...painters have seized his two most distinctive features--a wide mobile month and long-fingered, sensitive hands--and distorted them for emphasis. Only a few photographers have been able to get representative and impressive pictures...
There is a water show playing at the Boston Arena. It is the first large commercial venture in this field since Billy Rose's immensely successful Aquacade, and though hardly a spectacle of the same sort it adds up to fairly interesting evening...
...Historian Seymour had four years to go before the mandatory Yale retirement age of 68 took effect, but he had decided that the university needed a "fresh leadership of the most vigorous sort." He wanted to give Yale plenty of time to find it. He would not actually leave, he said, until July...
...control is needed inside your head, a place also round and not well known (miner-"minor"), and it requires chiefly a clarifying connection with the outside world, e.g., by the arches of the eye, whose iris (rainbow) promises safety as to Noah. The externalised Logos [Word] is a sort of promise that the outside world fits our thoughts. Christ walked on the water and the doves of Noah's ark and of the Holy Spirit before creation brooded over it; the idea is that you control the disorder of the outside world by sharing it and delighting...
...Dismayed. Empson's paradox is that he preaches Oriental passivity in the most dynamic sort of Western verse. This is symbolic of Empson's life in China, where he shared the hardships of the Japanese war with his students, trekking overland from Peiping to distant, mountainous Yunnan province, a distance of some 1,800 miles. Books were lost in the flight, so Empson gave a whole course in the English metaphysical poets from memory, reconstructing John Donne's songs and sonnets by substituting lines of his own for lines he had forgotten...