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...Jarrell wrote like an angel, it was often an avenging one. But the same fierce gaiety that could make him lethal also made him the most generous of praisers. He proselytized ardently for Whitman and Frost a generation ago, when both tended to be dismissed, or admired for the wrong reasons. He upbraided Auden for sometimes frittering away magnificent skills: "Auden's laundry list would be worth reading-I speak as one who's read it many times, all rhymed and metered." But Auden's best, he maintained in a review reprinted in this new collection...
...growth in the U.S. is likely to be slow and arduous. Any quick moves to provide eco-nomic shock treatment would probably only result in another round of inflation. The two sickest sectors of business, housing and autos, do not appear to be near immediate recovery. Guest Panelist Marina Whitman, chief economist for General Motors, forecast a modest pickup in car sales during the summer and then stronger sales after the introduction of new models in the fall. Much of the increase is likely to come from customers seeking small, fuel-efficient cars. Washington Economic Consultant Robert Nathan pointed...
...remember the day in June 1930," Esther E. Osgood '30 writes in her class reunion book, "When I threw away my old torn green and black bathrobe (which had seen me through senior year and generals), tossed all my college notes into Whitman Hall's second-floor trash barrel, and looked forward to the rest of my life." But the outside world was anything but promising then. The stock market had crashed the previous fall, and Herbert Hoover--still in the Oval Office--was formulating the radical Depression plan suggested by his assessment that "nobody in this country is starving...
...list of artists redeems the show. From Picasso to Giacommetti to Klee to Miro, the assortment is a Whitman's Sampler of the finest art of the century, worth seeing no matter how it is exhibited...
...most significant performance of the day by freshman Silvia Whitman, playing her first varsity match ever. Whitman showed great poise and promise for upcoming seasons in her 3-1 victory on Saturday...