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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...good poet, North asserts; it's just that critics miss the mark when analyzing his work. "They're not interested in any of the early stuff we all love," North explains, "like The Tennis Court Oath." The 1962 collection presents a mishmash of generally incomprehensible image fragments intended to reflect the experience of everyday consciousness. "Harold Bloom sort of dismissed The Tennis Court Oath as John getting through to the real stuff that Harold Bloom can understand. I think it's fair to say that, as poets, we don't really think about critics. We assume from the start that...

Author: By Matt Sussman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Note on Poetry: John Ashbery Revisited | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

Split Confusion ultimately falters, however, by wanting to be more like television rather than less. Colby's play, which has a running time of about 30 minutes, seems calculated to reflect on television programming as a whole. But as in television, this time constraint leads to limited character development and a rather programmatic plot. Moreover, the dialogue in Split Confusion seems forced by time limitations to quickly culminate in a punch line, just...

Author: By Joseph Hearn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Split Confusion: Media Frenzy | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...Humor is an important leavening device for a subject that at the same time is deeply serious. Philosophy has often worked by moving back and forth between playfulness and sobriety, and the humorous moments in the course, as well as the deeply serious moments, reflect a drama that I think is true to the subject matter," he says...

Author: By Andrew J. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Spoonful of Humor Makes the Lesson Go Down | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

Call me crazy, but it seems to me that the life this gentleman has led at Harvard--unaffected, it seems, by any of these benefits to student life--does not reflect "most students' lives." In fact, the life I have portrayed is most likely not at all the one the gentleman leads, either. My guess is that he would protest that he wasn't aware of all these benefits to students that have been effected by the Undergraduate Council. But this, of course, is exactly the point...

Author: By John PAUL Rollert, | Title: Unknowingly, We All Reap Benefits from the Council | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...there fear of a coming recession? Reflect on the magically ominous 25:33-4 - "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth; and thy want as an armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Proverbs vs. 'Hardball' | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

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