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...Undergrad so inhospitable to the fairer sex? Perhaps the trouble lies in the Undergraduates' approach, exemplified by Boris Alltodeath, a leading resident of the town. Mr. Alltodeath invites Ms. Ballzov on a date by asking, "How about coming back to my place and beating my sword into a plowshare...
...Nick Gordon '95), informs us that it's nice to be where everybody knows your name. And we learn that Dusty Yevsky, a local cowboy and poet, has a crush on a singing cow, Bess Western ("But soft," Mr. Yevsky exclaims passionately, "what light from yonder bovine breaks." Sadly, Ms. Western has her doubts. "I don't feel right dating someone who's higher up on the food chain," she demurs...
...Ms. Smith is a sort of poet--a "slam" poet to be exact. Smith has parlayed her form of reviewing, self-promotion and a reliance on politically correct poetic pap into a career of artistic merit, at least according to the Globe's reviewers. And according to the usual litany of minorities that she writes about and uses in her over-blown theatrical "poetic" readings, there's really not that much talent there. But when you espouse sycophantic pieces dealing with Blacks, gays and society's downtrodden, it's not talent that matters--only political and sociological content...
...Ms. Smith does have her supporters, some with impressive titles and awards to their credit. Unfortunately they are of the `third-world-in-your-face' school of writing which says that everything is permitted without ability as long as you are outraged and oppressed. It is the warped notion that supposed diversity of viewpoint, place, ethnic origin and balance of genders will produce great...
...Ms. Smith is not along in exemplifying the new Gestapo-guidelines of artistic academia. Pick up any poetry journal or writers' anthology; what you'll get everywhere is warmed-over histrionics and clamor...