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...Monster or Hero? Apollinaire, Steegmuller insists, was a remarkable poet despite, rather than because of, the poetic gimcracks he often employed. Uniquely among his contemporaries, he understood that poetry would increasingly need a precise language to keep pace with the modern world, a stock of images to keep pace with science, which was leaving all old-fashioned conceptions dangerously behind...
ALFRED JENSEN-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th St. (third floor). More checkerboards than a shelfful of Purina boxes. Among them: Men and Horses, a three-panel impression of the Parthenon frieze that might have been done by a nearsighted mosaicist, and a monster quad-ruptych called The Birth of the Triglyph...
...mentism." Some picketed Woolworth stores; others ran high-powered colloquiums like Yale's "Challenge" and Princeton's "Response." Berkeley liberals got washed down the steps of San Francisco's city hall while protesting the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Campus conservatives appeared everywhere, held a monster rally in New York's Madison Square Garden...
Paul A. Lee's review of the two books on Eichmann is far more engaging. He defends Hannah Arendt's thesis that Eichmann is "banal," rather than a "monster of evil," characterizing him as "an efficient, hard-working administrator, who took no thought of the moral consequences of his actions because such reflection was beyond his capacities...
Electro-com's message, of course, can be a pitch for anything from a political candidate to a bottle of mouthwash, though the tiny monster's promoter, 22-year-old Jeff Schottenstein of Los Angeles, wants to eschew the hard sell for fear that "the Public Utilities Commission will declare us a public menace." TWA has tested the device for confirming reservations. Another Electro-com prospect: Allstate Insurance (to remind people that their policies are about to expire...