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Delmore became a member of the Harvard faculty. He joined the prestigious Partisan Review crowd. He began a long poem, Genesis, which he believed would secure his place as a poet and cultural hero. John Berryman recalled his colleague just "waiting for fame to descend...
...range-weather forecasters are hedging their bets, but others are not. The 1978 edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac, out last week, predicts that the Northeast is in for a particularly "cold and gloomy" winter. Snowfall will be 15 to 20 in. above average. The chill will descend as far south as Florida. A moderate winter is predicted for the rest of the country-but folkloric weathermen in the Midwest cite a number of telltale signs that point in the opposite direction: bears are fat and getting fatter, woolly bears (caterpillars) have thin brown bands across their middles...
...trip took 999 days, through dense rain forest and showers of spears and poisoned arrows from hostile natives. It took the expedition three weeks to descend Stanley Falls, and more than a month, much of it spent carrying the boats, to get through and around Livingstone Falls...
...Sound-"one room, one enormous window, one cat, one spider, and one person"-Dillard gazes out at nature and sees beyond the molecular realities ("Each thing in the world is moving, cell by cell") and even beyond Emerson's transcendental glorification to mull a final unknown: "Did Christ descend once and for all to no purpose, in a kind of divine and kenotic suicide, or ascend once and for all, pulling his cross up after him like a rope ladder home...
Twice a year they descend, a 10,000-strong army of the night, on New York University's Shimkin Hall. There they wait patiently in line to register, at $55 to $117 a ten-to twelve-week session, for more than 800 courses ranging from Arabic to Zen. The electronically minded can choose from among 75 courses that explicate computer wizardry; language devotees can immerse themselves in Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian or Swahili. There are more than 80 courses in the down-to-earth business of real estate. And a beguiling "Broadway Matinee" course offers tickets to four shows...