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...other action yesterday, Arty Faden and John Weeks advanced to the freshman 145-pound final -- both by default -- and Winthrop's Rick Hausler whipped Housemate Mike Bernick to move into the upperclass final in the same weight class...
...which could spell trouble with a capital T for Dave Gauthier tomorrow afternoon when he meets Bob O'Meara for an all-Hollis 185-pound freshman final in the annual Harvard intramural boxing championships at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...bout, the freshman 175-pound match between Bob Hoyle and John Keough, served as a final when none of the other four pugilists in that weight class dared show. Keough, a Hicksville, N.Y., product with all the heart in the world, took a unanimous decision...
ELIOT and his followers thus made the mistake of refining themselves clear out of our common sensibility. This was an across the board sweep affecting all the arts. Eliot and Pound, along with Robert Lowell and John Berryman, have as little to do with our basic experiences as I.M. Pei has to do with Route 66, Dickey holds up Theodore Roethke, the Michigan poet who celebrated the greenhouses and gardens of his early life with simple, crystalline language, as the kind of poet who can bring off the new poetic revolution against these oppressive forces. Roethke is a good start...
While the journal can be safely skipped, the sixty pages of essays tacked on at the end are well worth reading. They all deal with modern post-Eliot and Pound poetry, what Dickey thinks is wrong with it, and where he thinks it should be going. Like everyone else, Dickey has the irrational longing for the unwritten and perhaps unwriteable poetry which would hold up a clear mirror to the way we live now. He does, however, offer some very rational suggestions on how this kind of poetry might be achieved. For one thing, he says, the poet must discard...