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When writing to the Crimson, please include your name, title (if any), address, and telephone number. We reserve the right to edit all letters for length...
...dismay about Reagan among Reaganites brought an ill-assorted two dozen Some them together for a meeting a week before Haig's resignation. Some were writers and polemicists of standing, including Michael Novak, Irving Kristol and as Podhoretz; some edit obscure, cranky magazines that posture as if they them armies of followers; others have enough name recognition to get themselves onto talk shows on an off night. Richard Viguerie, whose computers contain the hottest list of right-wing fat cats, was there; so was Terry Dolan, who raises hours for commercials against candidates on his hit list. After five...
...Poetry, the venerable Chicago-based monthly that helped launch the careers of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Besides shouldering this tradition and the morose routine of rejecting manuscripts, Nims, 68, has continued to teach, lecture, translate poems from a variety of tongues and edit anthologies. He has plenty of workaday excuses to be a dull boy. Yet The Kiss, the sixth collection of his own poetry, glitters with wit and erudite tomfoolery. Its 44 poems turn the act of puckering up into cerebrations whimsical and sensuous: "A poem: most like a kiss. A play...
...aspiring writer in '50s London, A. Alvarez kissed by the book; his affections were literary. The novels, and the tempestuous marriage, of D.H. Lawrence became his literary and personal inspiration. When he met Frieda Lawrence's granddaughter, he instantly fell in love. Then reality began to edit illusion. When the first words his new wife spoke to him on their wedding morning were "You didn't cut off the crusts" (he had forgotten to trim the connubial toast), Alvarez thought: "It's the wrong script." Frantically, he turned page after page. Didn't Lawrence write...
...field of telecommunications alone, AT&T already has under development such 21st century-sounding devices as phones that use miniature display screens to identify the source of a call before the receiver is answered; phones that can edit out and block pre-selected callers from reaching a person's number at all; phones that can even double as personal desktop computers. Also in the works is a broad range of video phones for offices and, most exotic of all, portable and cordless little devices that can provide instant direct-dial access to telephones around the world. Beyond telecommunications, divestiture...