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...many Americans an Easter holiday in the Caribbean is a pleasant way to forget the cares of the world for a few days. Their President is not so lucky. The reasons go well beyond the fact that Ronald Reagan, for image-building purposes, felt obliged to turn his five-day jaunt to Jamaica and Barbados last week into a "working vacation" that featured meetings with leaders of some of the area's island states as well as a bit of swimming in the turquoise waters. Whether in unseasonably cold Washington or under the blazing Caribbean sun, Reagan could...
...YORK-The Harvard men's tennis team brought its show to Broadway yesterday, outrallying Columbia, 7-2, to remain un-defeated in Easter Intercollegiate Tennis Association play...
...Easter Sunday...
PRESIDENT REAGAN acted out his own version of the lawgiver this Easter weekend, but his performance just didn't wash. Addressing the nation by radio from a Caribbean hilltop anion, he sharply denounced critics of his proposed cutbacks in student loans, denying that his Administration has been "snatching away" the loans with "Draconian cuts." But the President's "working vacation" message was not only unconvincing--it was dead wrong in belittling the impact of the cuts on America's students...
THIS IDENTIFICATION of political action with the creative impulse is the book's strongest point. While Cantor sticks to it, his writing stays clear and provocative--in his contention that Years, through his poetry, forged the Irish Easter rebellions into a "moment" of history; in his analysis of Joyce's efforts to submerge Ulysses entirely in its own language, "testing" characters in the equivalent of cultural revolutions; in his vision of the poet as legislator and the legislator as unsung poet. In the last essay of the book. "Gesturing with Materials," he sees in revolutionary political movements an analogue...