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...Coordinator of the Lamont Reader Service of the Student Disability Resource Center, I wish to reply to your article about Jack Chen (news feature...
...author stresses accuracy of images, metaphors and tone over the conventions of form. He dodges anachronistic language in favor of conveying the true emotion of the text the modern day reader. His vocabulary reflects the meaning packed concision of Dante...
...Dante broke with tradition by writing about such a weighty subject (i. e., salvation and the Christian afterlife) in the "low" style of Comedy; and, in doing so, produced a work in the vulgar tongue of his native Florence. That bold spirit of adventure now awaits the contemporary English reader, just as it once did the trecento Florentine...
...Irises as they are to her. Stevens surrounds Bette with an excess of winged imagery to indicate that she is the savior who will lift the Irises from their aggrieved inertia. The author has not realized Bette as thoughtfully as she has the other characters, and the reader never fully understands what it is about this girl that so deeply touches the Iris family. But angels are supposed to be a mysterious breed, and despite these flaws, Stevens has made a fine debut...
Michael M. Luo's article ("Asian-Americans: Breaking the Mold," Scrutiny, Feb. 1, 1995) parades in front of the reader a handful of Asian Americans who are ostensibly "breaking the mold," almost as a novel zoological phenomenon. In particular, he contrasts the prevalent pre-med image of Asian Americans with the exciting new venues that they find themselves in: high-rank campus publishing, student businesses and--of all impressive things--the Undergraduate Council...