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Adam Yarmolinsky, '43 has been awarded first prize for the best American Civilization Essay, it was announced yesterday. The subject of his work, which won a $50 prize, was "The Influence of Walt Whitman on Later American Poetry...
Ballad For Americans (Victor). Two-disc album of the patriotic spine-tingler first heard on the Pursuit of Happiness radio program (TIME, Nov. 20). Discounting the influence of Poets Whitman, MacLeish, Anderson and Composer Kurt Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday) on the script and score of Messrs. Robinson and Latouche, even sophisticated listeners should get a kick out of this hopeful musical U. S. history. Paul Robeson, as the Voice Nobody Knows until the last stanza, sings bravely...
Others who spoke were Stanley O. Beren '41, giving Ingersoll's "Plumed Knight"; Allan B. Ecker '41, Roosevelt's "Road to Peace"; Jonas N. Muller '40, Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath"; Howard Nemerov '41, Yeats' selected poems; Elliot L. Richardson '41, excerpts from "Ecclesiastes"; John W. Sever '40, Whitman's "Song of Myself"; and Richard B. Wolf '41, Emerson's "American Scholar...
...life of Frederick the Great; Henry James Jr. at 22 took a lofty view of the works of Charles Dickens ("the greatest of superficial novelists"), sneered at Henry Kingsley ("the author leaps astride of a half-broken fancy . . . and trusts to Providence for the rest. . . ."), was appalled by Walt Whitman ("You talk entirely too much about your self."). Longfellow, Whittier, James Rus sell Lowell contributed to The Nation...
Walter R. MacLaren received the Edward Hickling Bradford fellowship; Samuel Lewis '35, the John White Browne fellowship; Paul C. Zamecnik '36, the William O. Moseley Jr. travelling fellowship; Sinclair H. Armstrong Jr. '37, the Jeffrey Richardson fellowship; Nathan B. Talbot, the Whitman fellowship and a Dr. William Hunter Workman fellowship; Nathaniel B. Kurnick 4M, a Dr. William Hunter Workman fellowship; and Hubert W. Smith 3M received the James Jackson Cabot fellowship...