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Auden assimilated Marx and Freud, yet eventually became the kind of arch-poetic witness to a disarming, irony proof piety that a secular age requires. The fact that a cursory reader may feel he has been here before is not a problem. It is the whole point. Before abandoning his verses to history, Auden liked to be sure that, whatever their message, each one sounded as if it could only have been written by W.H. Auden. Everything in Thank You, Fog qualifies. As with saved letters from lost sons or fathers, so with the last words of this dead poet...
Harvard hockey fans, undaunted by their team's two vacation losses, will display their faith in the Crimson's quest for the Ivy League title tonight by packing sold-out Watson Rink to cheer on the Crimson against Ivy arch-rival Cornell...
Faith's story is philosophical noodling, more smoky legend than shoes-in-the-dirt fiction. What saves it from arch ness is the warmth and sense of the telling. The 26-year-old author is black, and variously a cartoonist, TV writer-producer and philosopher, currently teaching at New York's Stony Brook. More than anything, his book is a wry comment on the tension felt by a black intellectual. It shows enough narrative strength, though, for the reader to hope that Johnson will go on to try a straight forward novel...
...overconfident Crimson hockey squad was rudely received by host St. Louis last night as the Billikens handed Harvard a tough 5-4 loss in the City of the Golden Arch...
NONE OF THE pleasures of Lysistrata are subtle, but for an hour and a half of non-stop sexual double entendre subtlety is hardly a requirement. When the cast is arch, leering, and working together like a well-greased machine, it comes off; the evening, however, has its rough spots when the coordination of the actors weakens and the play goes limp...