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...played for some very good Bruins teams, but both times he made it to the precipice, he ran into the juggernaut of the 1980s, the Edmonton Oilers. No team in that decade??not the Bruins, not anyone—could match the likes Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Glen Anderson, and Grant Fuhr...
...someone who has been, variously, described as “a poet of immense promise and unforgettable delivery” (Brodsky), and “England’s brightest new poet for a decade?? (Peter Forbes in Poetry Review), Glyn Maxwell is curiously unknown in the U.S. I had attributed this to the same sort of infuriating blindness that means none of my British friends have heard of Jorie Graham. Perusing his last book of lyric poems (The Breakage, Mariner Books) before Wednesday’s reading only seemed to confirm, though, that here was the most...
...Spirit of Geneva” has been a long time in filtering down to the American public. For nearly a decade??five years before and five years after the 1955 conference—the threat of instantaneous annihilation terrified an entire generation. There seemed no sense in working for an idealized future without the certainty that there was any future to work for. But, whether or not anything was accomplished during the 1955 summit negotiations, they did, in time, precipitate a marked shift in the public attitude—a relaxation of tension which is just now taking...