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Poetic models continued to figure in Tate's development for some time. "I didn't read any of T.S. Eliot till 1920," he explains, "though I'd read some of Pound. When I read Eliot, I couldn't write anything for a long time. Critics have pointed out that I'd written Eliotic poems before I read Eliot. That often happens in a certain period; people begin to do the same thing independently. But Eliot was so much more mature, you see, and I was just a boy. He rather overwhelmed me. So for awhile, I had to avoid that...
...should become one. I did not want anything to do with unpleasantness, so I went into politics." ··· Muffin was missing, and Joanne (ex-Mrs. Johnny) Carson was beside herself. A doctor administered sedation, but Joanne still wandered up and down Sunset Boulevard searching for her three-pound, Yorkshire terrier. Enter Joanne's blind date, TV Executive Tom Tannenbaum, who was promptly pressed into service as a Muffin hunter. Some time around dawn they found the little dog alive and well. Joanne, describing the hound hunt to Columnist Joyce Haber, provided a provocative peek at her marriage...
Zappa started the concert with "A Pound for a Brown," a syncopated number that was the perfect vehicle for bridging the gap between the musicians and the audience. He had hardly finished before launching into another, and then again another number, finally completing the first part of the set with "Cruisin' for Burgers." The audience was on its feet...
...hero of last Saturday's Columbia 3-2 victory over Princeton was a 5 ft. 6 in., 120 pound right inside named Pete Vasudhara. He recorded the first "hat trick" of the Ivy league season by netting two unassisted goals before scoring the winner in the fourth period against the Tigers...
...partly because Advocate editors liked to tout the names of former contributors who escaped undergraduate awkwardness and secured niches in various literary pantheons. At times the magazine seemed a testing ground for the efforts of cliquish students who aspired--under the direction of Robert Lowell--toward the techniques of Pound and Eliot. At best much of the material printed was imposingly academic in the Pound-Eliot tradition--and all too often, doctrinaire in approach and discouragingly pretentious...