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Another poem, by Peter Viereck, is a satirical lament on the development of poetry and its critics. Playing a distinct second fiddle to T. S. Eliot, Viereck sighs, "Today the women come and go--Talking of T. S. Eliot." For those who feel that Pound's poetry is intolerable because of his political behavior, that the verse of Eliot is fickle because of the author's flirtation with the classics and religion, and so on with the heirs of 1912, then Full Cycle may extract a chuckle here and there. Viereck, however, falls to equally deplorable sins of banality...
...signers: John Chamberlain, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman, James T. Farrell, Alfred Kazin, William Phillips, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling, Peter Viereck, Robert Penn Warren, Thornton Wilder, Edmund Wilson...
Marxism seems dead among the U.S. young; belief in democracy is strong but inarticulate. The one new movement that has begun in the younger generation is what Poet-Professor Peter Viereck calls the revolt against revolt-an attempt to give youth a conservative credo to stand up against the bankrupt but lingering political radicalism...
Church attendance among the young has increased, partly because churches have made strong efforts to win new followers through social and sport activities. But there is an unquestioned spiritual need at work, too. Says Dean Robert Strozier of the University of Chicago: "They all have a conscience." Says Historian Viereck: "They believe they believe ; they do not necessarily believe. Not many of today's young people say they have seen God, but they think everybody needs...
...Defense of Poetry" Professor Peter Viereck, Mt. Holyoko College, and others...