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Taken from the NY Public Library's exhibition,the posters, banners, letters, magazines, articlesand photographs serve to support the text andalmost provide a pictorial text on their own. Attimes, the book can be academically dry; at othertimes, it can be preachy. It is dry, however, onlywhen the writers attempt to integrate too manysources without enough commentary; it seemspreachy only when taking on homophobia anddiscrimination. Given the nature and context ofthese flaws, they are certainly forgivable
...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...
Stanford's inside presence will make itdifficult for Harvard's drivers to penetrate, andalmost impossible to establish junior center RoseJanowski or All-American forward Allison Feasterin the post, especially early...
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