Word: unmodern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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August 9: Allen Tate, the metaphysical poet, biographer, and critic, who will lecture on "Poetry: Modern and Unmodern...
...blue for one who can tell you anything new about hell fire." Lowry set out to do just that. Most modern men do not believe in hell because they have not been there. Lowry did, because he had been there. He also believed in a number of other unmodern things-that "life is a forest of symbols," in fate, destiny, demons and spells, numerology and divination by study of birds and their behavior. What saved him from being-as so many mystics are-a bore and an embarrassment to plain men was his artist's eye and the controlled...
...position brings, Fred Kappel, at 62, remains essentially a small-town boy who retains the earthy and often unsophisticated ways of the heartland. He runs the most modern of corporations from an old-fashioned office in a lower Manhattan building whose Doric columns and tiled floors are defiantly unmodern. In this Parthenon of the William Howard Taft era, Kappel still converses in the slangy, twangy argot of his native Albert Lea, Minn., can still cuss on occasion like the pole-hole digger he once was. One significant term that often salts his conversation is "long-nosed." Says Kappel...