In the spring of 1936, Gordon A. Craig, twenty-two years old and about to graduate from Princeton, made two of his earliest public appearances. The first was a poem, modeled on a Latin Ode, published in the Nassau Lit with the title “Marxicos Odi,” and dedicated “To My Proletarian Sweetheart.” The poem evokes the brevity of life, the swift passing of undergraduate pleasures, and their irresistible distraction from more serious things: