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Sidney Goldfarb, who has published before in the Crimson Review and Pharaetra, contributes three poems which I like very much. They show a good grasp of tone and an ability to restore impact to everyday phrases and imagery. Goldfarb avoids the purple passage, the overblown metaphor, and the "poetic" sentiment so common in the verse of young poets. instead, he turns out stanzas like these two from Mrs. Willy Cavanaugh, I Remember...
...short, dating, dancing, kissing games and all the rest of the natural delights that once were the preserve of adolescents, are becoming part of the everyday life of an increasing number of eight-to twelve-year-old grade-schoolers all over the U.S. The latest social discovery of the pre-teeners. particularly popular in the nation's suburb-nests, is "making out," a tentative version of adolescent necking: the boys and girls get together at somebody's home, and the parents discreetly disappear, leaving the room darkened and the boys at liberty to "make out." Pre-teeners...
Making Tradition. The civilized world savors the pleasures and treasures of Rome, Paris and the other Old World cities whose everyday lives are still corseted in tradition. Beside them, the modern American city seems a muscular, lunging, rollicking giant, straining toward new heights and making up his own tradition as he climbs. Yet for all their indiscriminate bustle, the big cities of the U.S. have developed distinct personalities of their own, with much deeper differences than a palm tree or a peep show might suggest. Of them all, five cities, spread from coast to coast and north to south, reflect...
...lying? Is he lying? Are both of them telling the truth? Has he simply confused her with another girl? Has she simply for gotten the affair? Whatever the case, he continues to fill her mind with images that slowly come to seem more real than the everyday reality of her life, that slowly persuade her to imagine they were really in love - or perhaps persuade her to remember they were really in love. Does it matter which? What is reality, if not what one thinks it is? Resnais finds an abstruse answer to his question. Reality, he suggests...
...Maggie, the scrappy cat on a hot tin roof, and Big Daddy, the bull-roaring lord and master of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." Williams' dialogue sings with a lilting eloquence far from the drab, disjunctive patterns of everyday talk. And for monologues, the theater has not seen his like since the god of playwrights, William Shakespeare...