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… Elmer Gantry. Dodsworth. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50 each. Impossible as judicious appraisal is … others in these novels — thin caricatures, grotesque parodies like Sharon Turner, the staff of the McGurk Institute, … left out of life, its simple faith in a thing called Ideals. We compare his books with the serene art of Ellen …

… Southern advancement through the act of grappling with the complexities of Southern heritage. In April 1925, sixty … A simple keyword search of “Civil War” on the magazine’s website yields hundreds of archived articles and creative … he saw as a backwards and intellectually barren region. He points to some fifty-odd years beginning around the outbreak …

… coasters, blowing smoke, talking and listening. . .equals. Is there anything lovelier than an amber ale in bar … off during my final two seasons. After trouncing the competition at the state championship as a freshman and … golf. I had every assurance I needed: I was a winner. Coming down our street in the rain, you’d pass a dozen …

… Yvor Winters at Stanford When I first met Yvor Winters 26 years ago, on my arrival as a new instructor in the … I was surprised to find him a rotund figure with a florid complexion. One could tell even before hearing him speak … Stanford, Winters had never read his poems to a Stanford audience, although the English Department and the University …

… close friend and a once-famed poet, who had died of a heart attack, paranoid and alone just two years …