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...stake on Saturday afternoon beside an insular history? Winning the Yale game two years ago, and last year for that matter, was exciting because of the elitist pride over who was less mediocre in the World of Two that was at stake. This year, the excitement was absent because we knew the victor before the coin toss. Paradoxically, when something greater than The Game seemed to be at stake, little substantive excitement could take the place of mediocrity...
...Friday night, the overture, though clearly supported by a few more able performers, sounded sadly under-rehearsed. Expression was lacking; even a real sense of unity among the different instruments and the certainty vital to any performance were surprisingly absent...
Most surprisingly absent from Opus Posthumous is the monumental and idiosyncratic "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction." Stevens outlines his perfect poetics with instructions such as "it must be abstract," and then taunts us with glistening seascapes and fragrant, ripe fruits. The prime difficulty and import of Stevens' work lies here: his subject is at once immanent and idealized, both a radiant presence and a metaphysical abstraction. In a similar fashion, Stevens' best known shorter poems, among them "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself," concern themselves with the poet...
...from the e-mail. The list included not only grades for all students, but also "the T.F.'s honest personal perceptions of each student," Mathes says. When he looked at the T.F.'s comments about him, he found himself described as "a poor test-taker who was frequently absent and was unable to turn in papers on time." Mathes says he was shocked by the characterization and especially by the fact that it was circulating in administrative circles. "I didn't appreciate my T.F. spreading my scandalous confidences, and I liked it even less when I found out that everyone...
REVEALED. The identity of HELEN CATHCART, elusive royal biographer; following the death of her loyal assistant HAROLD ALBERT; in Midhurst, England. Cathcart, it turns out, was really Albert--clothed in literary drag to woo his predominantly female readership. Albert educated himself by reading, escaping a Dickensian childhood--absent father, reviled stepfather--to write Her Majesty, Prince Charles and other genteel accounts of royal life...