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...come a striking change in poetry's style and content, a vigorous evolution that may yet become the second great poetic revolution of the century. The first revolution, which rolled over the language during the decade beginning in 1910, was an American revolution, a revolt of the vernacular launched by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost-all of them still alive and writing, but not writing much. In the early '30s, the heirs of the revolution, led by Britain's W. H. Auden, turned to what Poet Archibald MacLeish called the "invocation to the social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...Columbia under the pragmatic philosopher John Dewey and became one of his outstanding disciples. Hu Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. Literature was much more than just enjoyment: on his return to China in 1917, he crusaded for the paihua (vernacular language) movement, which gave that vast land a written language corresponding to its spoken tongue, thus breaking the ancient literary monopoly of the mandarins and making reading and writing accessible to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nationalist China: The Departed Traveler | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...Harvard long afford or oft allow itself to be surpassed in such essential learning? In the vermicular vernacular, can we afford to burrow from the realities around us and transmogrify the liberal epistemology? O never never--the government is with us and the populace demands it: let us enter in the new planarian world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Worm Turners | 3/1/1962 | See Source »

...LITURGICAL REFORM. Despite Pope John's recent announcement that he prefers to see Latin remain as the church's principal liturgical language (TIME, Dec. 22), bishops from Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, France and mission countries want Rome to permit the use of the vernacular in the Mass. Patriarchs from Eastern Rite churches-many of which have liturgies that are heavily latinized-want to remove Western influence from the ceremonies used in worship. On behalf of their priests, Western bishops have asked for a breviary in the vernacular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Summons from Rome | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...Rome's Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Pope.'John XXIII noted that "it is a duty to make sure that the Latin language maintains its regal sceptre and its noble dominion in all solemn liturgy." The Pope encouraged the use of good popular hymns in the vernacular at non-solemn liturgical functions. But Latin, he added, "is permanently connected with the sacred melodies of the Church of Rome, and is a clear and splendid symbol of unity . . . It must continue to maintain its sovereign position to which it has every right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Latin Me That | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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