Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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IN a recent article in Encounter, the English poet and critic John Wain complained about the present "flabby, soggy period of instant poetry," and said that "the poet is seen more and more as a person who appears in public and strikes attitudes. As rhetoric disappears from political life . . . it...
(The author is president of the Harvard Advocate
Amid mounting speculation that the U. S. will resume bombing North Vietnam. a group of Boston activists is organizing a new anti-war movement which would move to action immediately after any American escalation in Southeast Asia.
The group-many of whose members were active in the now-defunct November Action Coalition-is attempting to set up a citywide mass meeting which would convene and decide upon action to follow an escalation in much the same way as "The Day After" (TDA) march followed the trial of...
Such actions might include protest marches, a citywide student strike, or civil disobedience against Federal offices or corporations, according to David I. Bruck '70-4, a member of the group. Unlike TDA, which ended after one march, the movement would make possible constant anti-war organizing, Bruck said yesterday.