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Memories of his Russian youth float through the paintings of Marc Chagall like some well-loved dream. Although he has lived much of his life in France, he went on painting the rabbinical figures, village steeples, brides, bouquets, clocks and animals of Vitebsk. Back in the U.S.S.R. for the first time since 1922, the 85-year-old artist was visibly moved by an exhibition of his work, some of which has been kept under lock and key as too "formalist" for the Soviet censors. Did he remember the paintings? Tentatively touching his 1917 oil, The Wedding, Chagall replied with tears...
...MARC STUART KLEIN...
...between Pound's time and ours; but there is a point to his repeating Pound's advice: to remember the old virtues of economy, force and precision; not to be afraid to make readers think; to remember that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. And Marc Leib's review of a posthumous collection of Sylvia Plath's play and poems has some points to make about what's wrong with the tendencies of contemporary poetry-writers. He complains about the endless, pointless description that bad writers insist on producing and after clearing Plath of the usually...
...compare him with Price," said Marc A. Pembroke '74, a member of Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship and a fundamentalist Christian, "I think Gomes is much more strongly dedicated to preaching the Gospel without equivocation. Price made an effort to teach a view that didn't demand committment to Jesus and the truth of the Gospel...
Siegman goes so far as to suggest that an "intensely Christian environment can in fact make for a more traditional Jewish community"-an argument that provokes an outraged response from Ecumenist Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum in the same magazine. The U.S. has already had just such an intensely Christian environment, Tanenbaum points out, in the days when evangelical Christianity and American nationalism were considered synonymous. In that situation "Jews were second-class citizens, denied the right to vote and hold public office...