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...says Bennington Dean Harry Pearson, the girls "take great pleasure in tweaking the noses of the middle classes." To celebrate the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante (see BOOKS) this spring, the girls donned costumes and reconstructed the campus according to the Divine Comedy-Hell was the college dump, Heaven a hilltop garden. Men at nearby colleges are prone to gossip about Bennington students as "rather bohemian girls of a sexually compliant nature," which sometimes leads the girls to answer requests for dates with an icy "I have a paper...
Hundreds of letters have poured into the White House from garden-club la dies, Sunday drivers, bird watchers, country editors, city mayors, and all manner of green-thumb lobbyists. Residents of Wayland, Mass., held an art show to dramatize the need for cleaning up the town dump. Missouri's Governor Warren Hearnes offered prizes for the best dogwood-redbud plantings in a statewide prettification program...
Technology has a way of re-enacting poetry. West Germany is currently considering a network of Autobahnen im Dunkeln, or highways in the dark: huge subterranean pipelines that will carry industrial waste and scrap to the coast, dump them into the ocean and form new land. "Under green fields, under our feet," writes an awed British journalist, "the thick current of Germany's yesterday will creep endlessly down to the sea." The scheme is symbolic of contemporary Germany; for 20 years, its people have sought to eliminate the rubbish of their past and build anew...
...attack began as well-armed freshmen closed upon, Radcliffe defenders gingerly fanning out from their supply dump. On the grass they had tastefully laid out 200 waterballoons in pinks, greens, and blues...
Moreau has a Belgian's gift for morose images ("the silence massed there like a dump of faded echoes") and the surreal ("He swam across stones, he crossed chromogeneous skies, fields paved with spines, the breath of cowards"). When his book was published in France last year, Paris' two top literary monthlies hailed him as "one of the great writers of our time." But Selves is too agonized and too labored. Intended as a critique of the inner man, it comes out as a shriek...