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...time.com/personal for more on volatile markets. E-mail Dan at kadlec@time.com See him Tuesdays on cnnfn...
...Dan Visel...
...passion for poetry. He reacted to poetry he loved in the way a lightbulb reacts when connected to electricity. He would repeat favorite lines in that Slavic, declamatory way that makes of words a magically transporting physical experience, an illumination and a kind of intellectual drunkenness. In later life, Dan acquired a solidity of middle age, a gravitas, with even an air of the august. But I think of Dan the way he was when I first knew him at Harvard - thin, handsome, dashing in a Slavic style, with high cheekbones and curly brown hair brushed back from his high...
...Danylo had been born in Ukraine. His father, the director of the Medical Institute in Lviv, was murdered in 1941 by the Soviet NKVD because he freed some students who had been arrested. Causa pietatis, Dan (who made it to the U.S. with his mother in 1949) became an intellectual leader of the Ukrainian diaspora, working to keep alive in exile the culture that the Soviets were doing their best to destroy at home. Danylo presided (as managing editor and later as editor in chief) over a massive five-volume Encyclopaedia of Ukraine, which he assembled, with loving, exhausting labor...
...have been thinking about Dan for weeks, not just because of his birthday but because - this sounds odd, I suppose - someone designates April as National Poetry Month, and shows on National Public Radio and public television have been broadcasting a lot of poetry, and bookstores like Barnes & Noble have prominent displays of poetry on their racks...