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...claims a sixth grader's poem written in response to William Carlos Williams "shows not only William's attention to the beauty of small and supposedly unbeautiful things, but also his way of making the poem, as it goes along, a physical experience of discovery for the reader." It's hard to imagine a sixth grader intentionally attempting to evoke such a sophisticated response. It's like equating a crayon drawing of a cow with wings floating under a purple sun with a Chagall. In fact it's difficult to accept the premise that kids understand poetry much better than...
Just why this should happen is unclear; one would like to think that the "Veritas" on the top of Harvard's stationary would extend to the letter below, no matter who the eventual reader might...
Taber reports that Giscard, an avid and critical reader of the magazine, attacks transcripts of his talks with a green felt-tipped pen -and a precise feel for English nuance. Giscard's editing affected the stylistic polish of his answers but not their substance, and what the French President said proved to be of more than usual interest to his countrymen. His remarks in a recent interview with Taber, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan and Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers (TIME, Oct. 7) were widely reported and analyzed by the French radio and press. Such scrutiny...
...this isn't necessarily bad. We've come to expect a reasonable share of obscurity and allusiveness from the Modern Novel, and if Nabokov prefers to allude only to his own work, okay. The first sign that all is not well between Nabokov and the reader is the compulsive desire to anagram every unfamiliar name (or else run to a Russian dictionary) so as not to miss some crucial symbolic connection. Next comes the realization that there isn't really all that much there to miss...
...economic-development projects, has made Church World Service by far the most popular and best-funded ($9 million a year) program of the National Council of Churches. This fall C.W.S. is for the first time soliciting gifts from the general public via ads on 20 TV stations and in Reader's Digest...