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Leaving the magazine behind, three FM staffers set course for Central Square to meet up with an exclusive pub-crawling crew. In attendace: Delphic Club President William Burke. They travelled to: Pheonix Landing, The Fields, The Plough and Stars, People's Republik, the Cellar, and People's Republik (again...
Schneider, who was a member of the Delphic,says that final clubs were "largely ignored...
Sears says he believes this has prevented theBee from joining the Council. "That's notsomething the Bee members would like," he says."The women in the club aren't willing to say thatthey won't go to the Delphic or the Phoenix. Theydon't want their life at the College to berestricted in that...
...Walt Whitman or Gerard Manley Hopkins or Hart Crane--or Theodore Roethke, who was one of Dickey's favorites. But Dickey was himself--a now and then wild American, good at putting his own myths in motion and intoxicated by the English language. English professors called him "Orphic" or "Delphic," a prophetic delver, with an eye for nature and, interestingly, for the sometimes violent meanings of machines (cars, fighter planes). At his best, in the poems he wrote from the late '50s to the early '70s, he produced work of a virile and transformative splendor...
...same breadth, the leader of public opinion. Those who administer our physical life, also administer our spiritual life. He is, in Woodrow Wilson's words, "the spokesman for the real sentiment and purpose of the country." He is thought of by people as a combination of scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen and father of the multitudes. The framers of the Constitution took a momentous step when they fused the dignity of a king and the power of a prime minister in one elective office--when they made the president a national leader in the mystical as well...