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From the moment Matsunaga entered Congress, as a member of the House in 1963, he began a lonely but determined campaign to create a national poetic license. Last year he finally succeeded. Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin agreed that each new consultant in poetry to the Library, a post that has existed for 50 years and carries a one- or two-year term, would also bear the title of poet laureate. Matsunaga was understandably elated: "The poet laureate of the U.S. will raise the prestige and respect of the poet to the point where youngsters will aspire to become...
...find it shocking and saddening, and a profound comment on the generation coming of age, that The Crimson has abandoned its oldest and proudest stand. Harvard out of South Africa! William McKibben '82 David Edelstein '81 Scott Rosenberg '81 Paul Attanasio '81 Jim Hershberg '82 Katherine States '80 Robert Boorstin '81 Joseph Dalton '79 Paul Englemayer '83 Adam Cohen '84 Tracy Sivitz '83 David DcMilo '80 Andrew Multer '79 Richard Weisman '78 Susan Faludi '81 Michael Miller '84 Sarah Paul '84 Jeffrey Toobin '82 Former Crimson editors
...course, the picture is pure hokum, and everybody knows it. The West was won by wagon trains, the East by sailing ships, and they all had plenty of passengers aboard, by necessity working together. "In history," Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin explained, "even the great explorer had been the man who drew others to a common purpose." Try to imagine an individual so rugged he could raise a roof beam...
NONFICTION: Alex, the Life of a Child, Frank Deford -The Caravaggio Conspiracy, Peter Watson Characters and Their Landscapes, Ronald Blythe -The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin - Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose -A Warsaw Diary: 1978-81, Kazimierz Brandys
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙The Penitent, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury ∙5hame, Salman Rushdie NONFICTION: The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin ∙The Oxford Book of Dreams, edited by Stephen Brook Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose ∙The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton ∙Siegfried Sassoon's Long Journey, edited by Paul Fussell The Spiritualists, Ruth Brandon