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...demonstrate some keys to reading poetry. Alarmingly, he turned Stevens' very sophisticated poem into a cartoon,delighting in the story of "this magic little jarwhich conquers Tennessee," and, while allowingthat more nuanced readings of the poem werepossible, he seemed so strongly by temperament toresist such readings that he effectively arguedagainst them. The key to enjoying this poem, heheld, lay in the music of its sounds and thesilliness of its story, and there was analmost-but-not-quite implied "and nowhere else"following his critique. The lecture ended havinglasted just a little too long...
Vice President Joshua D. Liston '95, theofficial administrator of the election, arguedagainst its invalidation...
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