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Along with all those effulgent rhythms, it's the finesse of the language that lofts songs like this out of the arena of gossip and retribution into something far more formidable. "In its literary context, his writing is very important," says the poet Derek Walcott, to whom Simon dedicates a Saints song called The Coast. "Most poetry is sedate, quiet, self-concerned. His imagination is much bolder and more refreshing. He reminds me of Hart Crane...
...guitar handy, but there are books of poetry (Wallace Stevens, Philip Larkin) open all around the living room, within easy reach, like so many cerebral snacks. In case this sounds a little rarefied for a rock guy -- even a rock guy who sang a few tunes to Derek Walcott's poetry class at Boston University -- it should be added that Simon also enjoys listening to music as various as Miles Davis, Prince and Public Enemy. It's not always the sounds of silence up there on Central Park West...
Harvard University President Derek Bok was chairman of a commission that recommended the changes. The revision, he says, "begins to send a useful signal to schools that problem-solving ability is important, rather than simply the ability to identify the correct answer from a predetermined list." But Bob Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a longtime critic of the SAT, charged that the board had failed to deal with the verbal section's analogy problems, which frequently make unconsciously elitist, racist or sexist assumptions about the backgrounds of those taking the test. On one recent test...
Second Period: 4, H, Peter Ciavaglia (Donato, Derek Maguire) 13:30; 5, H, Vukonich (McCormack) 16:02; 6, H, Ciavaglia (John Weisbrod, Sean McCann) 16:20; 7, B, Hanley (Chauvette, Mike Ross) 19:30. Penalties--B, Joe Vanderber (hooking) 0:49; H, Vukonich (tripping) 2:00; H, Weisbrod (cross-checking) 7:18; B, Ross (tripping) 12:01; B, Darrin MacKay (hooking) 12:40; B, Ross (roughing) 15:11; H, Burke (roughing...
...grant comes at a time when the GSD is suffering from a serious budget deficit. The school recently laid off a number of employees in an effort to cut costs, but President Derek C. Bok says it is unlikely the school will take other drastic measures...