Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boyle's "A Poem About the Jews" rolls in 169 long, free-verse lines from Old Testament times to the present, noting random instances of anti-Semitic atrocity. She mentions the Nazis only in anticipation, and millenium-old progroms accumulate a terribly immediate horror from the comparison. "The Germans were not alone in their fury." Finally, she narrates in stoical understand language the Mississippi murders of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and poses devastatingly the question: "Can we say/ Now we have heard enough? Can we say the history is done...
...comparison will suffice. The introduction of universal, compulsory education in the 19th century gradually transformed American society. This was the great change. Present efforts to add a few years of schooling at one end or another, to extend the curriculum and improve facilities, while useful and important, cannot possibly have the impact of that first innovation. To the extent that the new programs are directed to persons who have trouble coping with the education system as it is, they will be even more costly and marginal in their effects. It is one thing to be concerned about a high school...
...death's yet pools are/her eyes") which has some interest but some impossible tin-ear cacaphony ("and then more than ever i know of"). His other effort, "The Deed," is doggeral. The rhythm of its short rimed phrases suggests Bob Dylan's fine song "Like a Rolling Stone," but comparison insults Dylan. Ament's phrases are all empty rime-tags...
Like the last Anderson play, Treason at West Point, Prince Erie is vaguely historical. Probably that is the only point of comparison. Treason, produced at the Loeb two years ago, met with a blast of hostile critical wind. Some people even speculated that the Loeb administration, learning a quick lesson from Treason's fate, would avoid producing this year's Anderson play...
...valid. The unexpected confrontation with McNamara and the resulting confusion over a "debate" sidetracked the basic rationale for the demonstration: to confront McNamara as a symbol of a war in which people are killed. The question of "mob" action raised by the Administration and McNamara has little relevance in comparison with the scale of violence that this man represents...