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...Lloyd McKin Garrison Prize of $175 has been divided between Stanislas Pascal Franchot '32, of Boston, for his poem "Prelude to the Twilight of the West" and James Rufus Agee '32, of Rockland, Maine, for his group of poems. Both men will get silver medals. Honorable mention goes to C. L. Sultzberger '34, R. M. Hatch '33, and Keith Martin...
...take on graciousness, and old ladies forget to prattle of their favorite ailments. Young men reveal the subtle ways of Spring in just that proper tilt of the hat. And, inevitably in May, flaunting their best clothes and their best looks along the lanes, "wymmen waxeth wonder proude." Twilight comes in on silver feet, and the Vagabond, in mellower mood, has a kindly thought even for the penny-a-liners...
...strange silence that brings only happy sounds; the voice of the brook or the off-key whistle of a farm boy. It is that indefinable time of day or night which poets and song writers have tried to limit by a phrase without success. They call it gloaming, or twilight, or dusk and straightway destroy the illusion. It is none of these, but only ten minutes past sunset in New Hampshire and it must be heard and seen and felt, not rhymed and written...
Like a hoary ground hog looking for a shadow, Rudyard Kipling has again ventured from his Sussex lair. But either his spring is late or Mr. Kipling has passed to disembodied immortality and the twilight of the gods. No shadow falls. This first new fiction volume of Kipling in six years, a collection of 14 stories, 19 verses, conveys chiefly an aged emptiness. The stories are, of course, masterfully told, but they are not masterpieces...
...What is Spring?" she asked, "Spring," he answered, "Why Spring is when men sit on the front steps in the twilight smoking, when their wives sit with them, when all music is a waltz, when little girls tie blue ribbons in their pigtails and older sisters walk together laughing in the darkness. It's when young boys go shouting up the street a older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press, when the man in G-32 borrows a car and goes to Wellesley, when the debutante reads poetry, when the moon is a soft golden...