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The TV series has some appealing moments, including scenes of poetry workshops that capture the fervent ingenuousness of young people who, in discovering poetry, feel they have found a new continent. But Moyers makes virtually no attempt to place the poet in a larger social context--to view poetry as...
DIED. LAURENCE MCKINLEY GOULD, 98, geologist; in Tucson, Arizona. From 1928 to 1930, Gould trekked across part of Antarctica as second-in-command to Richard Byrd on Byrd's first expedition to the continent. Today maps of Antarctica are replete with Gould's name: Mount Gould, Gould Bay, Gould Glacier...
As a four-year veteran (1958-62) of the bad old days of apartheid when I was with the U.S. embassy in South Africa, I continue to be amazed at the comparative civility of that country's metamorphosis [SOUTH AFRICA, May 8] from the skunk among nations to the butterfly...
None of this would have been possible without Nelson Mandela. He is South Africa's George Washington, the revolutionary turned President who has overseen the birth of a nation. His popularity is phenomenal. Eighty-three percent of urban blacks say he is doing well, while 55% of whites agree. In...
While it is certainly regrettable that several thousand dollars worth of Yoruba objects were taken from the Peabody Museum last week it is equally regrettable that no one bothered to verify the most basic of facts in Victor T. Chen's story ("African Artifacts Stolen from Peabody Museum," news story...