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...poems in this collection are elegies (some memory of Irish soldiers and artists), along with one particularly striking lament for Robert Lowell, whom he calls "our night ferry Thudding in the sea." He admires Lowell as one who "drank America/Like the heart's/Iron vodka...," and these lines of veneration acquaint us with Heaney's intrinsic poetic spirit. Like Lowell, he wants to glean all that he can from his environment...
...presidentail candidate speeches are part of Campaign '80, an IOP program designed to acquaint the Harvard and Cambridge communities with the candidates and issues before the March 4 presidentail primary in Massachusetts...
...lack of satisfactory living conditions in the rough territory has contributed to a debilitating rate of turnover, more than 50% a year. This adds enormously to the cost of training programs that Ludwig's managers must conduct in order to acquaint the largely backwoods work force with modern machines...
Richard C. Marius, senior lecturer on Expository Writing, said yesterday the test will be used to identify students with writing difficulties and to acquaint section leaders of Expository Writing with the style of their students...
Yesterday counselors tried to acquaint the foreign students with their surroundings by taking them to banks, the post office, the swimming pool, restaurants and supply stores, and showing them how to use the transportation system, the libraries and the phones...