Word: spender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of Oxford poets, sparked by W. H. Auden, and including MacNeice, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis, staged a revolt against current English linguistic muddlement. By introducing modern technological terms into their verse, and by unburdening themselves of their subconscious minds-let the syntax fall where it might-they tried to make their language reflect life as it was actually being lived...
...from memory, works of English or American authors, either prose or poetry, and will be judged on their delivery, and its aptness to their subject. A speech of Oliver Wendell Holmes commemorating the Civil War dead, several selections from Stephen Vincent Benet, and excerpts from the works of Stephen Spender, are included on the program...
Speaking of music in wartime, British Poet Stephen Spender reported in his otherwise literate September Journal: "[T. S.] Eliot said that he did not care to listen to Beethoven so much as formerly just now. We both agreed on Bach and Gluck...
...exhibit lasting until Monday of authors' worksheets and original manuscripts leaned by the University of Buffalo, the Widener Poetry Room is displaying Stephen Spender's workbook, the manuscript of W. H. Auden's "Crisis," and of Robert Bridges' "Testament of Beauty...
Tall, silver-maned James F. O'Connor of Livingston, Mont, is a great spender, a great friend of the farmer, a man who cares not a fig for a balanced budget. He is also an isolationist, fought the Neutrality Bill which was intended to benefit the British and French. One day last week Congressman O'Connor delivered himself of a long speech favoring big WPA appropriations, increased farm benefits. Next morning he was horrified to see himself quoted in the Congressional Record as saying: "Let us not forget that allies must be provided with beef...