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DIED. HUGH KENNER, 80, scholar and critic who was a leading authority on such standard-bearers of literary modernism as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett and, especially, Ezra Pound; after suffering from heart problems; in Athens, Ga. The author of 25 books (and a contributor to 200), Kenner avoided the jargon of academia in favor of an often witty, idiosyncratic style. He described his 1971 book, The Pound Era, on the poet's contribution to the birth of modernism, as "an X-ray moving picture of how our epoch was extricated from the fin de siecle...
...Beckett and Elfenbein said they believed that the police reacted with unnecessary aggression to the protesters’ actions. Contrary to what they identified as the media’s stereotype of the protests, they said that only the fringe groups among the activists were confrontational toward police...
...most confrontational thing I saw protesters do was gather cardboard boxes and burn them. I didn’t see anyone throw anything,” Beckett said...
After their arrest, Beckett and Elfenbein, along with Jordan A.A. Bar Am ’04 and Rachel S. Bloomekatz ’04, were kept in a paddy wagon for six hours. Once at the jail, they said they felt that the police continued to violate their rights...
...never got a phone call until after my hearing. I never had my rights read,” said Elfenbein, who added that she, Beckett and Bar Am were not given their prescription medication...