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Harvard has not yet revised its winter sports schedule to correspond to the college's calendar changes, Eric Cutler, assistant director of athletics and the sports schedule coordinator, said yesterday...
What we should have been talking about, and what we should talk about now, are those liberal--and even radical--demands for greater economic equality which correspond to the interests and desires of most Americans. When and if the student movement begins, in a truly idealistic way, addressing itself to Americans' demands for tax reform, national health insurance, full employment, then we have a fighting chance for success. And success is the best antidote to cynicism...
...Middle-earth, to be published posthumously). But he did point out that literal-minded folk who object to fairy stories as escapist mistake the wartime escape of the deserter (bad) for the wartime escape of the prisoner (necessary and good). Fairy tales represent the latter, Tolkien continued, and correspond to the primordial human desire-in a world of poverty, injustice and death -for the "consolation of the happy ending." Tolkien even coined a word-Eucatastrophe-for this happy quality...
Adrienne felt she was not able to make her poetry correspond meaningfully with her life then. "There were a lot of experiences coming at me, and I tried to break out of the strict forms I had been using. I sensed my need for a new voice, but this was a slow, unconscious process. I wanted to write the kind of poetry that my experiences demanded." These experiences were marriage, motherhood, and "the necessity to redefine myself. I couldn't be the 'good student' any more, the precocious younger poet. I was becoming a woman and was confronted with...
...life. While digging wells for wasteful rich people, he finds himself pursued by bored and hungry wives. For a rest, he vacations in Russia. He falls in love there in a scant three minutes in a pretty interpreter's office. But his visa is cancelled. He and his love correspond. Their letters are intercepted by a pair of State Departments. Artemis is called to Washington, is questioned about passing information, and gives up hope. He waits for his spring jobs, and the healing power of water...