Word: afternoons
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According to the advisory, several incidents have been reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) on Museum St., Prescott St., Trowbridge St., Broadway and Harvard St. in the late afternoon and early evening...
...poet Kenneth Koch '48 arrived at Harvard on Tuesday without much fanfare. A few posters in the Yard, most of them already covered by ads for IOP functions and offers for cheap futons, publicized his lecture that afternoon at the Graduate School of Education (GSE); his evening reading at the Signet went, with the exception of a few notices sent to student email lists, almost entirely unpromoted. Somehow it did not seem to matter: his lecture at the GSE drew a large audience, perhaps a hundred people, and the small space for his reading at the Signet filled...
...course, none of this seemed to be bothering Koch when he made his entrance at the GSE Tuesday afternoon. His lecture, held in the Askwith Educational Forum and titled "The Pleasures of Writing and Reading Poetry," was comprised largely of material from his recent book on verse, Making Your Own Days, and showed him from the start to be a delightful figure, his manner relaxed, forthright, a little absent-minded; his delivery earnest but clever; his lanky form animated in a way that made him seem very much younger than his seventy odd years...
Still, the tendency to de-intellectualizepoetry, which made his afternoon lecture soalternately refreshing and frustrating, wasdetectable in the platitudes, the easy jokes andthe strings of parallel declarations whichinterfered in many poems with the directperception, the simple truths honed fromcomplexity, so present in "Straits." Koch seemsvery much to want not only his poetry, butpoetry to be accessible to everyone, andalmost immediately accessible: in reducing his ownwork to homilies and jokes, Koch showed the sametemperament that allowed him to turn the Stevenspoem into a cartoon, sacrificing what hederisively referred to as "meaning" for what heseemed to consider counter to it, "pleasure...
...White House hoped it would. After Henry Hyde's resolution to open impeachment hearings carried the House by a 258-176 vote, the Republican demurely called it "a victory for the process." But it was Bill Clinton who was breathing a little easier after the afternoon vote; only 31 Democrats crossed the aisle. "The White House had put out the word that anything under 50 would be a victory, and of course that bar was comfortably high," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. "So they're satisfied...