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Last week the Iraqis outdid themselves. Sixteen people were executed by firing squad or gallows for plotting against the Baathist junta of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, which seized power in 1968. "All conspirators will be crushed to pulp," cried Al-Bakr. Baghdad radio punctuated its attacks on "reactionaries and deviationists" with a new musical number titled No Mercy Any More. In subsequent days, 21 more alleged plotters were executed, in addition to seven Iraqis accused of helping the CIA plot a coup last year. So far, 98 people have been done away with since the beginning...
From Sixty to Sixteen-Plus. "In poetry," Auden has written, "all facts and all beliefs cease to be true or false and become interesting possibilities." It is his refusal to give up possibilities that makes singleminded, typecasting critics suspect him of essential frivolity. The fellow is forever tinkering with meter. He is forever arguing that poetry is play. He has the nerve to say: " The unacknowledged legislators of the world' describes the secret police, not the poets." Can high art be as amusing as Auden makes it? Eliot once said that the purpose of art was to entertain...
...Sixty make sense to Sixteen-Plus? What has my camp in common with theirs, with buttons and beards and Be-lns? Much I hope...
Just sweet sixteen and Now you're gone...
...protesting the fact that sixteen students have been severed from the University and forty more face discipline, announced that only a massive struggle can prevent Harvard's "racist hiring policies." At the rally this evening, painters and "painters' helpers" are featured as speakers on Harvard's employment practices...