Word: wanderjahr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Restless young "J." Laughlin left Harvard after his freshman year, took off for a Wanderjahr in Europe. There U.S. expatriate writers filled his ears with a doleful cry: Why was there no publisher in America willing to take a chance on avant-garde writing? Laughlin went back to Harvard in 1934 with ideas of becoming a publisher. He collected a big eclectic bundle of literary odds & ends (by such writers as Gertrude Stein, Kay Boyle, Jean Cocteau, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens) and in 1936, while still in college, published them in one volume as the first New Directions annual...