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Michael Casey, the winner of the 1972 Yale Younger Poets Award, is perhaps the first American poet to deal successfully with the Vietnam War; he is the first to capture with candor, humor, freshness of insight, a careful eye for detail, and an exceptionally attentive ear for language the thoroughly human fabric of a war from which most of us are physically and, too often, emotionally far removed. A former base guard and highway patrolman in Vietnam, Casey witnessed little of the action from which heroic yarns are spun. Rather, he saw in combat and heard expressed the neuroses...
...least memorable, we watch a stifling process of human degradation symbolized by the desperate, random violence of tank-town prizefighting. Fat City is about a bunch of losers dying in spirit by slow, murderous inches. It lacks any substantial portion of compassion, however, any shred of insight to lift it above the level of a slumming expedition...
Most fortunately for those of us who love the sound of music, Lawrence Berman has not changed his tune in the slightest. As Monday evening's concert demonstrated once again, he combines with consummate artistry the lucid insight of a musicologist, the precise execution of a virtuoso, and the upretentious sincerity of his personality, to recreate music for the piano in a very convincing...
...Valk is a plebeian with little formal education. But he reads a lot, looks hard at the world and thinks fast. He also has a blonde French wife who provides Gallic insight and underdone foie de veau, modifying her husband's tendency toward Dutch stolidity. In short, Van der Valk is the perfect medium through which Freeling, himself a multilingual, self-educated, cultural nomad, can express his own sharp-eyed perceptions of life. While getting on with the crime, readers are treated to idioms in several languages and quotes from the likes of Horace and Kipling. They are also...
Asking her reasons for stopping short at the twentieth century in her study, produced a more amusing insight on the rules of Hardwick's game. "I think that everything has changed in contemporars fiction," she smiles. "It's no longer a question of seduction and betrayal--there's just activity." Much of her talk was filled with a light-hearted rapport with her listeners. Gracious, delicate, charming, her Southern accent murdering a figure like Lovelace with a characteristic drawl of "ba-a-ad news," Hardwick was able to communicate much of her own personality to her audience. Always sympathetic...