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...spells of depression and illness. Invariably smashed at the literary parties she gave or attended, Sonia yelled insults at her friends, including Plante. Where was the luminous, vital woman whom Or well had been moved to marry, three months before his death from TB in 1950? Only in an appendix does the reader learn that Sonia was prodigiously well read, wrote petitions on behalf of imprisoned intellectuals around the world and paid her friends' medical bills...
...APPENDIX" to Phyllis Keller's book on the Core Curriculum evokes a laugh--a laugh born of the shock of recognition. Sure enough, there in the unmistakable typeface and format of the Course Catalogue is "a partial listing of Core courses" (last year's). The Big Book's vapid generalizations and inimitable manner of description are here preserved for all posterity, from "Literature and Arts A-11--Theater and Drama" to "Foreign Cultures 32--Political Doctrines and Society." Bound into the volume with them is the account--as seen by Phyllis Keller, associate dean of the Faculty for academic planning...
Under D, Auden describes a dream in which his appendix is to be removed. Instead, the doctor cuts off "the arm of an old lady who was going to do me an injury." Mommy dearest? Of course, and Edel does not fail to evoke the emasculating female. How much weight Auden, a homosexual, gave to primal imagery is open to question. An artist must care more about what he makes than what he is. Auden put it right when he told a friend, "I am a poet first and a queen second...
...keep getting drowned in the filler. The chapter of citizen action to promote a freeze is interrupted with "here is a list of the 33 states in which senate elections will be held in November, 1982. "Famous" "witnesses for a nuclear freeze" spout repetitive platitudes throughout a 38-page appendix. The impact of a description of a nuclear holocaust is blunted by 28 pages of number-laden tables that include such vital facts as the number of casualties that Ashtabula, Ohio will endure in a nuclear attack...
Reagan duly signed the certification last Thursday. It is a two-page document with a six-page appendix claiming that "despite formidable obstacles," the Duarte government has made a "concerted, significant and good-faith effort to deal with the complex political, social and human rights problems it is confronting." The document made it clear that those problems were by no means solved. (As many as 1,000 people still disappear or are murdered each month in El Salvador by death squads of both the left and the right.) But the U.S. claimed that "progress is being made...