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...month of Crisis at Harvard, however, Calkins has been hard to miss. Taking up the gap left by President Pusey's artless press releases in the first few days of the strike, Calkins has seemingly turned himself into a one-man public-relations agency for the Harvard Administration...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Who Is This Man Hugh Calkins? | 5/1/1969 | See Source »

Only an eccentric poet like Roy Campbell, the clerical reactionary, has attempted satire in formal rhymed Popian couplets, and perhaps only W. H. Auden has succeeded in didactic eloquence within a variety of formal, traditional stanzas. Doubtless, the exact antipode of Pope's Augustan order would be the artless, extemporaneous effusions that issue from the flower children of the modern coffee house-quite a different breed from an 18th century coffee house. "A thousand years may elapse," Dr. Johnson said, "before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope." With a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Gulliver Among Lilliputians | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...them for the first time laugh outright. He finally made his first commercial sale a month ago. Moreover, Ryman is no longer alone. For the past year or so, a dozen-odd other, younger artists have been producing pictures or sculptures that share his work's maddeningly artless look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Avant-Garde: Subtle, Cerebral, Elusive | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying--An unabashedly artless production of the Frank Loesser musical. Ideal football weekend entertainment. At AGASSIZ THEATRE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...falls alarmingly short of the ideal. By design or sheer ineptitude, the issues of Viet Nam, urban reconstruction and racial reconciliation are being clouded rather than clarified. The times call for a high order of statesmanship; yet Nixon comes on like an artful dodger and Humphrey like an artless bungler. Whether the two can shake off those images in the seven weeks before Election Day is becoming the key question of a disappointing campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LURCHING OFF TO A SHAKY START | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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