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...other house representatives are: Walter Jaros '68, Adams House; Kenneth M. Glaier '69, Kirkland House; Alexander Keyssar '68, Leverett House; Ron D. Lare '69, Lowell House; Stephen V. Whitman '68, Winthrop House. Eliot House has not yet held its election...
...Born in Whitman, Mass., where his father ran a grocery, Spellman gave no early hint of religious vocation. He attended public elementary and high schools, helped in his father's store, worked one summer as a conductor on the local trolley line. At New York's Jesuit-run Fordham University he was a conscientious but hardly brilliant student, a debater, and an earnest poet. Only on the eve of graduation did he decide to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1916, he went to Rome as translator for a Boston bishop in 1925, so impressing Pope Pius XI that...
...been written by a reader for readers, by a human being for human beings," instead of by "a syndicate of encyclopedias for an audience of International Business Machines." He could dismiss the pedantries of his associates with a single slash. He ends an essay on Whitman: "I have said so little about Whitman's faults because they are so plain: baby critics who have barely learned to complain of the lack of ambiguity in Peter Rabbit can tell you what is wrong with Leaves of Grass...
...assumed the role of a pioneer, a twentieth century Whitman, not only in the exploitation of untraditional themes but also in the development of a style that takes no cue from any predecessor--not even from Whitman. He takes enormous risks in his wriitng. He likes to quote Randolph Bourne: "The trouble with American culture is that the American artist is never allowed to make any mistakes. Poets today are afraid of gambling." He adds thoughtfully, "You have to get out on the edge and thread that very thin line between the predictable and the impossible, the ordinary...
...middleman between Artist Whitman and his engineers was a one-year-old organization called EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc.), which operates under an $8,000 grant from New York State, and expects to provide artists with the scientific savvy to produce even more far-out art. Among EAT's first private backers, each of which has put up $1,000 to encourage the liaison between art and industry and will lend its technicians to the cause, are A.T. & T., IBM and the A.F.L.-C.I.O...