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...poets formed the fourth group. The one I never met was Frank O’Hara. My memory of Ashbery I’m afraid is tinged by an unfortunate encounter with his partner. Others I had met were Donald Hall, Peter Davison, Adrienne Rich, Phil Levine, Stephen Sandy, Robert Creeley (unknown to each other, we were judges for the 1987 American Awards and met at the reception), Robert Kelly, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky. “Howl” had just been published to be immediately banned in public and on the airwaves. Rumor had it that Ginsberg...
...needs of Iranian students, Rouhani says. He recalls meeting with 13 other Iranian students in the Holyoke Center to discuss dealing with immigration officers and financial difficulties.“Some of the Iranians there were the children of the previous regime’s officials, and they were afraid,” Rouhani says. One of his classmates, for instance, was the daughter of a former minister who was then in prison. “They wanted to make sure she could continue studying without any financial issues,” Rouhani says.He also remembers that University President Derek...
Alison Dundes Renteln ’81, then-president of RUS, called for swifter changes, including a lit path to the Quad. Renteln told The Crimson that she was “afraid we may be getting into a bureaucratic snarl...
...nobody there,” he says.Barrett remembers getting into good-natured debates about U.S. involvement in Latin America. She “was probably, at that time, a little to my left politically,” he recalls. “She was definitely someone who was not afraid to get into an argument.”‘THEY CAN’T ALL BE BAD’After graduation, she interned at The Washington Post for three months, where she had the opportunity to write stories about the air traffic control strike of 1981. She then...
...Moulitsas spent part of his childhood in El Salvador during the country's civil war and was an Army artilleryman in Germany for three years, a background that, he says, makes him comfortable with throwing verbal bombs as well. "I'm not The Nation," he says. "I'm not afraid to use swear words. If people want calm, high-minded debate, this is not the site for it." Called in to mediate disputes among community members, Moulitsas has all the patience of a drill sergeant. "I get it all the time: 'Such-and-such was mean to me,'" he says...