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...OuLiPo's experiments will end. In addition to a trilogy of black- and blue-humored novels (Tlooth, The Conversions, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium), Mathews has recently composed poems to be printed on Mobius strips; works based on algorithms; and even a sentence that, spoken by a crow to a scarecrow, contains in sequence the sounds of all the letters in the alphabet: "Hay, be seedy! He-effigy, hate-shy jaky yellow man, oh peek, you are rusty, you've edible, you ex-wise he!" To fashion such creations, the OuLiPoians must be, as Martin Gardner characterizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perverbs and Snowballs | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...prepared to eat crow for a while, but I will never, ever eat peanut butter again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 29, 1976 | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...exposes the plight of urban youth, lays a slice-of-life on you--pick one of the above and man your stations, please. Your assignments should be pretty clear: each critic prises a skein of dialogue from the script and analyzes its relevance from the vantage of the ideological crow's nest he has shimmied into...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Horovitz's Complaint | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...forces have been mounting an ideological campaign against Affirmative Action for years. Apparently, they are now prepared to transform this ideological campaign into a political attack. Given this situation, the active motion of the University population in favor of democratic rights is crucial to resistance to the new Jim Crow...

Author: By William Fletcher, | Title: The Spiders' Web: Affirmative Action and the Struggle for Democratic Rights at Harvard | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

Southern newspapers routinely relegated announcements of black births, deaths and marriages to special Jim Crow pages. In 1956, the Wilmington, N.C., Star went to press with a frontpage photo of four Marines who were to testify in the court-martial of a drill instructor charged with brutality. When an editor noticed that one of the witnesses was black, he ordered an employee to chisel the Negro's image out of the press plate. The paper appeared with a ragged white space where the black face had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Things You Didn't Do, Boy | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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