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Dorian, one of the organizers of a Brotherhood Week at Eastern, feels that continued togetherness is the answer. "I have made some good white friends," she says, "but I can see it is hard for them. Like, we were making up these committees and this girl told us to put her in a group with all white people because she had been socializing with the blacks so much that she was afraid her friends would hate her. Another time, a friend of mine had this pajama party and she wanted to invite me, only she was afraid her parents wouldn...
...styles, into English. "The result--these English adaptations--" writes Anthony Kahn in his translator's preface to the book, "are interchanges between one poet and another." Accordingly, I suppose, Kunitz and the other American poets were asked to appear with Yevtushenko in a gesture of appreciation and international brotherhood. And certainly someone realized that they might give the reading a little dignity and that, at such a major event, it would be generally healthy to have a few American poets in the wings. How else to explain their appearances I don't know. No one, including Yevtushenko, according...
...interested but not surprised at the complaints of Do-Gooder Frank Ferree's neighbors about his house. If his neighbors had his spirit of brotherhood, they would take brush and ham mer in hand and help him put his "damned eyesore" in order...
...cause was also pushed along by the nationalist zeal of the romantic, rambunctious Fenians, who eventually fathered the I.R.A. Their principal organization was the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was founded on St. Patrick's Day, 1858, to carry on Wolfe Tone's dream of independence. Vaguely socialist in doctrine, the Brotherhood specialized in random bombings and produced its share of patriotic heroes for Ireland to keen over. Among the most famous?although hardly the most successful?were "the Manchester Martyrs," Michael Larkin, William Allen and Michael O'Brien, who were hanged in Manchester in 1867 for shooting an English constable...
...year-old Siqueiros has created the architecture, engineering, painting and sculpture. "It is an atheistic temple," said he. "It is not to adore God but to adore man." Nevertheless, among the encomiums came a cable from the Vatican, wishing "that your artistic message in favor of peace, justice, hope, brotherhood inspire the realization of these high human and Christian ideals...