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Buried away in this welter of polemics, a beautiful and well-modulated voice cries out for your attention. Stephen Sandy has written two new poems. The first, The Castor Bean Garden, is easily the most worthwhile item in this Mosaic, and also the most competent, well-pruned poem I have read in a Harvard publication. Sandy's intricate patterns of internal rhyme and his lush, but controlled alliteration give his poem just the the right form to complement his subject matter, which is the opposition of careful symmetry and undisciplined luxuriance. His second piece, Shoppers' World, struck me as slightly...
...Foods. Paulucci adhered to a two-point credo: "Cut out the middleman" and "Take advantage of waste." Shopping for bargains around the world, Chun King buys beef from Australia and shrimp from Ecuador, contracts directly with Chippewa Indians for wild rice and with Oklahoma and Texas farmers for mung beans, from which bean sprouts are grown. The simpler ingredients, such as celery and mushrooms, Chun King produces for itself-and here the profiting from waste enters. When Paulucci found out that the dirt in which the mushrooms grew was good for only one crop yet still contained rich compost...
...emerges is a tremulous song in praise of the Midwest, a region that has long needed a minnesinger. Harnack touches expertly on the deep small-town need to believe in such absurdities as 1) that little Joanie Henkman is the world's best cornet player, 2) that Ida Bean's goiter baffles the greatest brains in medicine, and 3) that if only Blacky Neuzig had been given his "big chance," he could have played major league ball. Iowa-born Author Harnack is married to Novelist Hortense Calisher and teaches English at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville...
...raven-haired newsgal (Carol Lawrence) starts sharing Chaplin's bench in search of a story. They are a rueful twosome, about as happy as a pair of viruses. Actress Lawrence's musicomedy gifts are under smothering wraps, and the only unwrapped presents of the evening are Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman. Fighting hotel-room eviction by wearing nothing but a towel (they can't throw her out nude), Comedienne Newman has one of the two numbers that threaten to wake up the show, I Was a Shoo-in, a hilariously mimed saga of how she missed being...
...judo professor at Tokyo's Police University blamed the loss on the manner in which U.S. occupation forces revised Japan's education system. A Tokyo nutrition expert argued that Sone had been weakened by eating Parisian breakfasts of coffee and croissants instead of Japanese dried seaweed, bean-paste soup, hot rice...