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Oliver's personal relationship with nature is both difficult to accept and difficult to condemn. For a poet grounded so firmly in the messages of nature, Oliver is often less of an environmentalist than one might expect. As she herself states, her impressions stem more from the experience of a "luminous life" than from an external environmentalist ethic. But regardless of whether Oliver's reasons for writing poetry are universal, her reasons are well-considered and interesting. Additionally, in speculating on the difference between her motivations, her intentions and her poetry, the veteran Oliver reader may be encouraged to formulate...
...have its share of glamour; it's just that its style is as dark, European and heavy as Germany in the '30s would have been. Unfortunately, if we follow the inverse proportion of authenticity to box office success, we will realize, of course, that this very merit will condemn The Harmoniststo a life on an obscure shelf in the back of Mr. Movies...
...absolutely reject the notion that Harvard'spolicies 'implicitly condemn' individual Harvardstudents for their participation in ROTC," Lewiswrote...
Mansfield went on to condemn the protestors' tactics...
This point is being made obliquely by Jewish groups and individuals who abjure these offers of institutional compensation and even gently condemn those whose accept them. In TIME last December, Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, himself a Holocaust survivor, said those "who have claims deserve to bring them forward, but it's at a heavy price. The next generation will believe it's all about money." Yet the plain, if unsatisfactory, truth is that money is the most tangible instrument of compensation that society has at its disposal. Verbal apologies have been proffered in recent...