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Marya Zaturenska's Depression Diary 1933-1935, Mary Beth Hinton

The Courier

IN THE DEPRESSION-ERA DIARY of the poet Marya Zaturenska (1902-1982), one meets many of the most influential writers and artists ofthe time: there is Archibald MacLeish at a literary tea, Edward Hopper at the Whitney Museum, Dorothy Parker at a political meeting, T. S. Eliot and Herbert Read at dinner in London. Figures from a more distant past often appear in Zaturenska's insightful commentary on the books she is reading. To her diary, now at Syracuse, she also confides her literary hopes and struggles, her exquisite aesthetic perceptions, her maternal feelings, and her overwhelming anxieties about money, health, and the …

Librarianship In The Twenty-First Century, Patricia M. Battin

The Courier

Battin urges academic libraries to "imagine the future from a twenty-first century perspective." To flourish in a digital society, libraries must transform themselves, intentionally and continuously, through managing information resources, redefining roles of information professionals, and nourishing future leaders.

Black Abolitionists Of Central New York: An Intimate Circle Of Activism, Bonnie Ryan

The Courier

In the spring of1999 Ryan curated an exhibition in E. S. Bird Library tided "Intimate Circles of Activism: Abolitionists of Central New York, 1830-1860." This article, an offshoot of the exhibition, focuses on letters to activist and philanthropist Gerrit Smith from certain African American abolitionists.

Some Unpublished Oscar Wilde Letters, Ian Small

The Courier

Oscar Wilde scholar Ian Small provides the historical context off our Wilde letters held in the Syracuse University Library.

African Americans And Education: A Study Of Arna Bontemps, Joseph Downing Thompson

The Courier

Using the life and work of Arna Bontemps as a case in point, Thompson examines the relationship between the formation of racial identity and the culture of educational institutions themselves, not merely the intellectual, cultural, and political traditions imparted by them.

Cultural History And Comics Auteurs: Cartoon Collections At Syracuse University Library, Chad Wheaton, Carolyn A. Davis

The Courier

After discussing the importance of the comics as a subject for scholarly study, Wheaton describes selected cartoonists and genres represented in Syracuse University Library's cartoon collection. Carolyn Davis provides a complete list of the Library's cartoon holdings.

Stephen Crane's Inamorata: The Real Amy Leslie, Charles Yanikoski

The Courier

In 1896 Stephen Crane had a love affair with a woman named Amy Leslie. Was she a denizen of the New York underworld, as many scholars have maintained? Or was she, as Yanikoski argues, a Chicago actress, theater critic, and celebrity?

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxxiii, 1998-2001, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Post-Standard Award Citation, 1998, for David H. Starn

Post-Standard Award Citation, 1999, for Dorothea P. Nelson

Post-Standard Award Citation, 2000, for Katleen W. Rossman

Recent Acquisitions:

-Thomas Moore Papers

-Kat Ran Press (Michael Russem)

-Margaret Bourke-White Photographs

-The Werner Seligmann Papers

Library Associates Programs for 1998-99, 1999-00, and 2000-01

In Memoriam

Declaration Of Independence: Mary Colum As Autobiographer, Sanford Sternlicht

The Courier

I N 1947, ten years before her death at the age of 7I, Mary Catherine Gunning Maguire Colum-Molly to her friends and her husband, the poet-dramatist Padraic Colum-published one ofthe most forthright and powerful protofeminist autobiographies ofthe twentieth century: Life and the Dream, a book that should not be as neglected as it is. What was or is the dream? It was a dream ofmany episodes: the hope ofa free, prosperous, peaceful, united Ireland; the fulfillment ofthe Irish Literary Revival which she so brilliantly chronicles as a participant-witness in the autobiography, and before in her masterwork of literary criticism: From …

The Wonderful Wizards Behind The Oz Wizard, Susan Wolstenholme

The Courier

The only biography of L. Frank Baum was coauthored by Frank Joslyn Baum and Russell P. MacFall. Having studied their papers, Wolstenholme explains how the biography was created and, at the same time, presents a case study in collaborative writing.

Dreams And Expectations: The Paris Diary Of Albert Brisbane, American Fourierist, Abigail Mellen

The Courier

IN 1828 Albert Brisbane (1809-1890) persuaded his wealthy father to send him to Europe in order to find out "what is the work of man on this earth? What was he put here for and what has he to do?"1 In Europe Brisbane became interested in French utopianism, especially the ideas of Claude-Henri de Rouvroy (Comte de Saint-Simon, 1760-1825) and Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Brisbane returned to the United States in 1834 and, until his death in 1890, devoted his wealth and energies to establishing an American Fourierist movement.

Ivan Mestrovic In Syracuse, 1947-1955, David Tatham

The Courier

IVAN MESTROVIC 's eight and a half years as a member of the Syracuse University faculty stand as a period of exceptional historical importance for both the sculptor and the institution. For the University, the arrival in 1947 of this world- renowned artist marked not only the beginning of a full-fledged sculpture program, one which rapidly gained national distinction, but also the beginning of a postwar effort to bring to Syracuse scholars and creative artists already eminent in their fields.

The Punctator's World: A Discursion, Part X, Gwen G. Robinson

The Courier

TEXTBOOKS for budding journalists are recommending short sentences of fifteen to twenty words and vertical lists for 'a clear layout' of difficult materials. They instruct that to be successful, authors need not embellish every sentence with a verb, nor, in fact, worry very much about 'grammar'. Language should be pitched to suit the sophistication levels of the reading masses, of whom there are an estimated seventy-seven million incompetents lurking in the U.K. and the U.S. alone. Such are the guiding directives for practising writers, and by extension, for editors, publishers, and book sellers, all of whom are scrambling to accommodate …

A Charles Jackson Diptych, John W. Crowley

The Courier

IT IS NOT widely known that Charles Jackson, author of The Lost Weekend (1944), once attended Syracuse University. Although the official records for 1922-23 survive only on microfIlm so faint as to be nearly indecipherable, it may still be discerned that he enrolled for six courses in the newly opened College of Business Administration: Business English, Stenography, Journalism, French, Political Science, and Economics. Jackson dropped out after two semesters, however, and he never did finish college. Why he left Syracuse is unclear; but a story based on Jackson's freshman year became a twice-told tale, providing both the plot ofhis unpublished …

News Ofthe Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxxii, 1997, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Post-Standard Award Citation, 1997, for George R. Iocolano

Recent Acquisitions:

-The Lewis Carroll Collection

-Addition to the Joyce Carol Oates Papers

-African Americans in the Performing Arts: Ephemera Collected by Carl Van Vechten

-Thomas Bewick Illustrations

Library Associates Program for 1997-98

Courier, Volume Xxxii, 1997, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Ivan Mestrovic in Syracuse, 1947-1955 / David Tatham, p. 5 -- Declaration of Independence: Mary Colum as Autobiographer / Sanford Sternlicht, p. 25 -- A Charles Jackson Diptych / John W. Crowley, p. 35 -- Of Medusae and Men: On the Life and Observations of Alfred G. Mayor / Lester D. Stephens, p. 65 -- The Wonderful Wizards Behind the Oz Wizard / Susan Wolstenholme, p. 89 -- Dreams and Expectations: The Paris Diary of Albert Brisbane, American Fourierist / Abigail Brisbane, p. 105 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion, Part X / Gwen G. Robinson, p. 123 -- News …

The Magic Toy Shop, Jean Daugherty

The Courier

General Manager Paul Adanti and Program Director Gordon Alderman thought that as part of our fifth birthday celebration we should develop a program for preschool children. Paul Adanti had only one request: he wanted a trolley car as part of the cast. Gordon Alderman, a graduate of Syracuse University's Drama Department and a man for whom television was more mission than medium, insisted it must broaden a child's world; it must help a child appreciate individual differences; and, "Ifit isn't fun," he said, "they won't watch." We didn't have a big budget, but we had resources. Our first job was …

Ernest Hemingway By Shirley Jackson Introduction: Shirley Jackson On Ernest Hemingway: A Recovered Term Paper, John W. Crowley

The Courier

For a 1940 English class at Syracuse University, Shirley Jackson wrote a paper on Ernest Hemingway. Crowley's description of her world at that time is followed by the paper itself, which he finds notable for its "attention to the ambiguity surrounding gender roles in Hemingway's fiction," as well as its "intellectual command and stylistic ease."

What's In A Name? Characterization And Caricature In Dorothy Thompson Criticism, Frederick Betz

The Courier

By the mid-1930S the journalist Dorothy Thompson had become "sufficienty important for writers and cartoonists to satirize her." They gave her a multitude of labels-zoological, mythological, and otherwise-which Betz surveys herein.

The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Nine), Gwen G. Robinson

The Courier

In the writing ofauthors Henryjames, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, james joyce, E. E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, George Orwell, and Ernest Hemingway, Robinson traces the development in the twentieth century of two rival styles, one "plaindealing" and the other"complected." In the "literary skirmish" between the two, the latter may be losing-perhaps at the expense of our reasoning powers.

Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum: A Forgotten Cultural Artifact, Brian G. Ladewig

The Courier

The 1898 novel David Harum occasioned a major transition in the publishing industry and, over a period of forty years, profoundly influenced American culture. According to Ladewig, the middle class saw in David Harum a reflection of itself.

News Of The Library And Of Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxxi, 1996, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Post-Standard Award Citation, 1996, for Mark E Weimer

Recent Acquisitions:

-Margaret Bourke-White Negatives of Olympic Athletes

-The Geography of Strabo

-Narrative ofthe Life of Frederick Douglass

-Materials from the Albert Schweitzer Center

-Albert Schweitzer: A Message for a New Millennium

Library Associates Program for 1996-97

Marya Zaturenska's Depression Diary, 1931- 1932, Mary Beth Hinton

The Courier

Selections from a diary kept by the poet Marya Zaturenska reveal her struggles as a mother, a wife, and an artist during the Great Depression.

Courier, Volume Xxxi, 1996, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Benjamin Spock: A Two-Century Man / Bettye Caldwell, p. 5 -- The Magic Toy Shop / Jean Daugherty, p. 23 -- Ernest Hemingway / Shirley Jackson, p. 33 -- What's in a Name? Characterization and Caricature in Dorothy Thompson Criticism / Frederick Betz, p. 51 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Nine) / Gwen G. Robinson, p. 75 -- Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum: A Forgotten Cultural Artifact / Brian G. Ladewig, p. 107 -- Marya Zaturenska's Depression Diary, 1931-1932 / introduction by Mary Beth Hinton, p. 125 -- News of Syracuse University Library and of Library Associates, p. …

An Interview With Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Paul J. Archambault

The Courier

The renowned historian Le Roy Ladurie dicusses his influences, his writing, his career as scholar and director of the Bibliotheque Nationale, and his views on Europe's religious, economic, and political inheritance.

Gustav Stickley And Irene Sargent: United Crafts And The Craftsman, Cleota Reed

The Courier

Reed sheds light on the important role played by Irene Sargent, a Syracuse University fine arts professor, in the creation of Gustav Stickley's Arts and Crafts publications.

Dr. Freud And Dr. Spock, James Sullivan

The Courier

Sullivan explains how Benjamin Spock translated psychoanalytic ideas about adults into practical advice for raising healthy children, and how Freud's ideas also influenced Spock's political philosophy.

An Interview With Thomas Moore, Alexandra Eyle

The Courier

Moore talks about readers' reactions to his best-selling books, the contemporary hunger for meaning, his "nonmodel" of therapy, and his own circuitous path to success.

News Of The Library And Of Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxx, 1995, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Post-Standard Award Citation, 1995, for Daniel W. Casey

Recent Acquisitions:

-Research and Design Institute Collection

-Virginia Insley Collection on Public Health Social Work

-Donald C. Stone Papers

From the Collections:

-Two Poems by Robert Southwell

-A Declaration ofLoyalty to Country, 1775

Introducing The Library of Modern Jewish Literature Library Associates Program for 1995-96

Arna Bontemps's Creole Heritage, Charles L. James

The Courier

James traces the lives of Bontemps's central Louisiana ancestors and the social upheavals they endured before, during, and after the Civil War.