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...stands. While the 1876 collection gave rise to unallayed pleasure, perusal of its descendant was attended by a palpable malaise, varied only by sharp twinges of pain. In the first place, it seems inexcusable for the Advocate to print the work of a professional poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, Peter Viereck. In addition, the piece itself (scene 9 of a new play) is a clearly inferior piece of bald social criticism. Mr. Viereck affects an intentionally vulgar idiom, contrasting exaggerated modern speech with the play's Classical framework. Yet he lacks the touch that makes intentional vulgarity effective, and so produces...
Inexorably my mind returns to those delicious poems our spiritual ancestors wrote in the sunny sixties of the last century. What a salubrious lesson for their progeny, Mr. Berman and Mr. Viereck, what a whole new world of literary endeavor. For, believe it or not, those knobby sophomores and other young men reserved something, did not toss out their inmost thoughts untempered, without discretion or taste...
...maintained, is the only hope of his country. In order into have creativity, Americans must foster individualism and non-conformity. "A single educational dollar spent to have a child's creativity at age six from Davy Crockett would do more than $10,000 given to a technician at 40," Viereck said...
Society now stresses conformity, he felt. He noted, for example, that colleges ask secondary school teachers to provide "adjustment ratings" for applicants. Viereck opposed such "chuminess ratings" because he felt they "imply a compulsory illness." To maintain their individually, Viereck advised students to "be bad mixers, and shockingly devoid of leadership qualities." He also advised them to be an amateur at everything--never a professional." Only a persons who do not now "how to write, think, or fight wars too well" can "imagination get the in rights needed for its highest achievements," he said...
...Viereck extended the discussion of art and conformity to The Tree Witch, his new play dealing with the problem. The play will be presented by the Poet's Drama theatre at the Loeb, May 31 to June...