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Dickey approaches teaching with a combination of energy and detachment. His creative-writing students are advised to tune into their recalcitrant unconsciousness, or the "celestial wireless" as Dickey calls it. He recently hammered away at his modern-poetry students for most of an hour about Emily Dickinson's obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everyone's Notion of a Poet | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

The illustrations in McLean's book enforce the point. They indicate an obsession with certain fundamental themes: the phallus, sometimes decorated with wings (an accessory, incidentally, commonly found in ancient Etruscan art); assorted schematic representations of the vulva; and the Valentine heart-a symbol that McLean believes is more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Alfresco History | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Credibility does not really count in Sleufh, by Anthony Shaffer, a television and movie writer who has sometimes collaborated with Brother Peter on detective novels. Sleuth reflects no real world, only the glints of its own inner harmonies. It is all a diabolical plot, and the first to be overthrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Games Playwrights Play | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

"Why," the film's central character, sees things like a child. She wants the objects around her and the places she lives to be soft, friendly, and permanent, When people treat her roughly she is hurt and confused, for she wants to be loved by everybody and tries to make...

Author: By Mire Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer Les Biches | 3/20/1970 | See Source »

Dennison is a gifted storyteller; he somehow allows the reader, in Martin Buber's words, to "imagine the real," the overwhelming total reality of the children's actual lives. As he tells the story of First Street, you live nine-year-old Maxine's ebullience, you share her wondrous obsession...

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: From the Shelf Educational Theory . . . . . . and Children | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

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