Word: written
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That is one way to reach Marianne Moore. She lives there between Lafayette and De Kalb still, as she has for 30 years, and from those unlikely surroundings have come some of the best U.S. poetry written during that time. Reaching the heart of her poetry itself is another matter. Her poetry is practical and fresh, delicate and forthright, intensely imaginative and keenly observant. To try to reach it, the Collected Poems are the best road. Her new book, so slender that it can be read in an hour, is a simple, narrow, carefree path that proves in a whimsical...
...contemporary, T. S. Eliot, has said that her work is "part of the small body of durable poetry written in our time." But what fine poet other than Marianne Moore would dare conduct a love affair with the "Brooklyn'' (not the Los Angeles-no, never) Dodgers in verse...
...fragments of the uncle's life, some contradictory, some provocative, come to his attention. Gradually, before the reader is fully aware of the change, the story has become that of Shanti's quest for his uncle. The mystery is eventually solved by a document written by the uncle himself. But by this time, Shanti and the reader are both well beyond the simple curiosity that began the search. Shanti is back in his village and back with his childhood sense of rapture at the sun and the sea. When his share of the treasure he found is sent...
This C.D.F. season must, on the whole, be written down as a commendable success, far in excess of what could legitimately have been expected in such a short time and under such unpredictable circumstances. William Morris Hunt '36, the C.D.F.'s Executive Producer, has announced that 80,000 persons attended the summer's offerings. The major remaining problem for the new Theatre is its acoustics. During the summer several amplification arrangements were tried; the one used for Much Ado, the sole proscenium production, turned out to be the best. But the acoustics are still not wholly satisfactory; perhaps the solution...
...Shaw's Man and Superman, which drama critic Elliot Norton '26 has called "the greatest comedy of the 20th century." An uncut performance would last eight hours, and most directors simply throw out the lengthy "Don Juan in Hell" interlude, which is the most brilliant four-way conversation ever written. Kilty's skillful blue-penciling enabled him to retain about an hour of the Hell scene, which makes the last act more meaningful since it refers to the infernal dialogue specifically...