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WHEN T.S. ELIOT reviewed Ulysses for Dial Magazine in 1923, he used the phrase "mythical method" to characterize the literary schema then being developed by his contemporaries--Joyce, Pound, Yeats--as well as by Eliot himself. But while the use of "a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity," as Eliot explained his term, was setting the literati of America and the British Isles on fire, in far-off Alexandria, Egypt, a poet who is just now receiving the recognition due a major literary figure was fashioning his own "mythical method." Constantine P. Cavafy, the poet of "Greeks in exile...
...making their first foray out on the Washington dinner circuit. One by one, the freshmen Congressmen at the Press Club bash rose to offer irreverent toasts to the new boys in the Executive Branch. Cracked Ohio Democrat Mary Rose Oakar: "It is nice to know that you can Dial-A-Prayer and get the President of the United States to answer...
...flicker of a TV set as the dial is clicked: rocket, eagle, Kennedy, dancer, oranges, box, all registered with the peacock-hued, aniline-sharp intensity of electronic color. The subject was glut...
...story on Charlie's Angels, she went to Carnegie Hall on four consecutive days to listen to the Berlin Philharmonic. She keeps up with the whole range of television programming by watching video tapes in her office and at home. Says she: "I just broke the dial on the small television in the kitchen by switching the channel so often...
...show also benefits from the lateness of the hour at which it airs and by the change in the audience that occurs around 9 p.m. Kids begin surrendering control of the dial, and women become the dominant force in program selection and the largest segment of the audience-60%. How it is that in all the years this pattern has persisted no one thought to angle a few of these shoot-up shows toward women is one of TV's mysteries. But Silverman, who was placed in charge of daytime programming at CBS when he was just 25, learned...