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Faced with a class of 40 or 50 bloodthirsty, ten-year-old savages, what is the poor poetry teacher to do? Strong's secrets: pick poems on subjects that will interest the pupils; stress sound and rhythm ("Vachel Lindsay will help you a great deal"); don't be afraid of noise ("let them say it with all the ferocity they can manage"); keep explanation and annotation to a minimum ("I have heard more than once a heartfelt cry, 'Oh, sir, please don't explain it!' "); never do violence to a child's feelings...
...Vachel Lindsay was writing about his home town. For him, Springfield was more than the prosy, prosperous seat of Illinois' State Fair; he saw it as a cultural capital of the future, where art would some day vie with corn, hogs and cattle for attention. The hopeful poet, who died in 1931, might well have been pleased by this year's state fair. Last week, for the first time in Illinois history, fine art was among the exhibits...
...project in Americana. In Our Common Heritage (16 sides, $10) Bing Crosby, Walter Huston, Fredric March, Pat O'Brien, Brian Donlevy and Agnes Moorehead recite (with background music) American poems and anthems that mark milestones of U.S. history. Best of the lot: Walter Huston's recitation of Vachel Lindsay's Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and Agnes Moorehead's reading of Rosemary Benet's Nancy Hanks...
...Henry James: "Both men separately held in respect the progress of self-realization. ..." The authors esteem Robinson's verse, which they consider as good as Thomas Hardy's, and Robert Frost's "Horatian serenity," as much as Ezra Pound & Co. and the Midwestern awakenings of Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters...
Married. John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 24, son of Bertrand Russell, Britain's Socialist philosopher-earl and mathematician; and Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 20, daughter of the late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay; in Washington...