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Sexual intercourse began/In nineteen sixty-three," Philip Larkin, the good, glum British poet famously, ironically wrote. You might argue with his date--in movies the sexual revolution came a little later--but not with his basic insight. Since then, though, under the camera's avid scrutiny, onscreen sex has become an activity restricted to movie stars who are young and buff, with the older folks left pretty much standing in the corner, all buttoned...
...Eliot, Samuel Beckett and, especially, Ezra Pound; after suffering from heart problems; in Athens, Ga. The author of 25 books (and a contributor to 200), Kenner avoided the jargon of academia in favor of an often witty, idiosyncratic style. He described his 1971 book, The Pound Era, on the poet's contribution to the birth of modernism, as "an X-ray moving picture of how our epoch was extricated from the fin de siecle...
...While Israelis and Palestinians battle with tanks and bombs, their supporters at Harvard are waging their fight by luring hot-button lecturers to campus. Last fall English department members, who had asked Irish poet Tom Paulin to receive an award at Harvard, rescinded the invitation amidst uproar over an interview with an Egyptian newspaper, in which Paulin said that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank “should be shot dead.” Although the department later reinstated the offer, Paulin has yet to speak here...
DIED. DON GIBSON, 75, Country Music Hall of Famer and songwriter known as the "sad poet"; in Nashville, Tenn. His compositions included I Can't Stop Loving You--which was recorded by more than 700 artists, most popularly by Ray Charles--Sweet Dreams and Oh Lonesome Me, which broadened country's appeal by infusing it with a pop sound...
...yours, I thought." Benjamin Zephaniah, British Rasta poet and activist, in an essay explaining that he turned down the Order of the British Empire honor because it "reminds me of slavery...