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...SAKE of those of us with less prior exposure to Cavafy, the authoritativeness hailed by Keeley is occasionally supplanted by enlightening as well as entertaining sketches of the poet. Liddell's chapter on "Reading and Working Life" is considerably enlivened by the reminiscences of a colleague in Alexandria's Irrigation Office, where Cavafy worked for years. The co-worker remembers...
...cost of living increase of 1 % that was due failed to show up in 1977's first paychecks. The local unit of the Newspaper Guild, which represents some 65 of the affected workers, called a quick meeting and won permission from the guild's Baltimore-Washington chapter to hold a strike vote last week...
...spark gap of fact into idea, or material into metaphor that the author is helpless. "I cannot explain the leap from juvenile verses to Sunday Morning, " she concludes, "but we have seen many intimations of its coming." Those intimations are reward enough for the Stevens appreciator. By the final chapter the creative act alone remains, as always, unreachable: in Wallace Ste vens' memorable phrase, "the palm at the end of the mind . ' ' Stefan Kanfer
...articles on the areas of their own special interest or expertise. The subjects include discussions of singers, songwriters and well-known studios, covering the range from Rhythm and Gospel, Rockabilly, Doo-Wop, Motown, the British Invasion, the Sounds of Memphis, Philadelphia, San Francisco and more. Up through the closing chapter which traces "the shape of the seventies," not a single important event in the history of rock has been overlooked or left out. When the occasional venture into hyperbole does arise, it is easy to forgive since, almost always, it is the product of genuine enthusiasm: for example, when Greil...
Full-rigged Monster. Yet by the last chapter even a skeptical reader should have a fair measure of respect for the author. The core of his novel is a good cautionary tale, and it is clear that Hayden, who in 1963 wrote Wanderer, a nonfiction account of his maritime adventures, is no stranger to the sea. It is in the explications of bygone politics and economics that his Voyage is becalmed for long periods. Happily, the same does not hold true for the four-masted bark Neptune's Car. The steel-hulled vessel beats around the Horn with...