Word: dipalma
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...POETRY OF RAY DIPALMA. A New Yorker, Ray Dipalma has published over thirty collections of poetry and visual art. Critics have variously associated his delicate lyricism with Wallace Stevens, the Language movement and Dada. Noted volumes of poetry include Letters, Provocations, and Motion of the Cypher. Thursday, April 10, 5:30 p.m. Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library. Free and open to the public...
...essays are less impressive. One, titled Experiment and Traditional Forms in Contemporary Literature, starts off early with a solecism ("Contemporary literary works such as Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma . . .") and then goes rapidly downhill. George Steiner, Leslie Fiedler and Theodore Roszak, all of whom have commercial-publishing credentials, turn in rather shaky performances before the smaller houses of the little magazines...
...When a politician talks, a dean listens." That, according to Dr. Joseph DiPalma, dean of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, is the way some would-be students endorsed by legislators get into professional schools-at least those schools heavily supported by the state. Normally, no one is the wiser, but this month a federal trial in Philadelphia threw unexpected light on what apparently has been a time-honored custom. Herbert Fineman, 56, the powerful speaker of Pennsylvania's house of representatives, was found guilty of obstructing justice during a U.S. probe into admissions practices of Philadelphia...
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