… Poems: 1930-1940. By Horace Gregory. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. It is possible to read well into his “Fifty … rate, for the absence of his usual collage of brothels, petals, and smiles in the present volume, and for the presence … whole, a struggle for affirmations, in which the will to die and the will to survive engage each other at close …
Profiles
… Oliver W. Hill Civil rights pioneer Oliver W. Hill Sr. has died in Richmond at 100 years old and will lie in state at … County, Va. , one of the five cases that the Supreme Court combined into Brown v. Board of Education . That case, of course, ended segregation in public schools, but it also opened the door to the Civil Rights Movement—and Hill …
… Unfading moths, immortal flies And the worm that never dies. And in that Heaven of all their wish, There shall be … and their idiosyncratic, individual, anthropocentric viewpoints from science. And thus, the scientist has become the … carry us with them into the pale blue skies of Heaven. 257-269 By Michael Jay Katz …
… is placid, and a good deal of writing and painting is accomplished by the village’s permanent artists’ colony. The … each other’s white wine bashes by night. The village has also had five resident Messiahs in the past dozen years plus … formula right in Deyá. For another thing, there is a medieval Mallorquin jingle that posits the existence of a …
… A Crusader for the Uncommon Man Irving Babbitt: Selected Writings. Edited with an … Irving Babbitt, professor of French literature at Harvard, died in 1933, having taught and influenced thousands of … of his adult life in an ivory tower. As Professor Panichas points out in his introduction, Babbitt’s was not “a …
Essays
… flock of gulls. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we come to love an unlikely place, the way time and attention not only reveal beauty but also grant a sense of belonging, the feeling of being … (In my notes I’ve written, “where old ships go to die.”) So this is what I’ve got. A tally of things made and …