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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...napalm and gasoline of the war over, Dickey enrolled at Vanderbilt to study philosophy and English. After teaching English at Rice and the University of Florida, he became an advertising copywriter in New York, then in Atlanta. In August 1961, to devote himself to poetry, he quit his job and supported his wife and two sons on small family savings and welfare checks. Six months later, they left for a year in Europe, courtesy of a $5,000 Guggenheim fellowship. Temporary terms as poet-in-residence at Reed, San Fernando Valley State and Wisconsin, and as successor to Stephen Spender...
...back in the South as Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, the former football star is having difficulty deciding whether to accept an offer to train with an N.F.L. team to write about his experiences. "I'm resisting the whirlwind of journalism," he says. "If I've finally achieved any distinction as a poet, then my primary aim is to explore the paths I've so laboriously come on. I've been looking forward for years just to sitting down and writing poems." Dickey has already proved that being a fine poet...
...symbol he is perfect; as a Jew he is wanting. Betrayed by his English accent, he cannot articulate inversions like "Luck I was always short of" without seeming to pronounce the quotation marks around the words. His most effective support comes from Dirk Bogarde as Bibikov, the court-assigned defender of the fixer. Wearing a fine mask of melancholy disdain, he grows gradually more revulsed by the corruption he witnesses in the palace of justice; his actions and his death predict the fall of the Romanovs as surely as any Leninist edict...
...FIRST GLANCE, there appears to be little relationship between the line drawings of a cartoon such as Nancy and Sluggo, and the Old English lettering of the banner of the newspaper in which the cartoon happens to be running. But there is a crucial connection between good cartoonery and fine calligraphy, and David McClelland's one-man show at Adams House proves this...
McClelland is obviously interested in formal, traditional calligraphy. The exhibit includes "The Whale," an old English poem which he wrote out in insular uncial letters on a regular page layout. Both the language and the letters are alien--they could be written in Islamic script and have equivalent elegant linear formality. But the letterlines and page forms have a universal meaning independent of phonetics or linguistics. They be-speak exoticness, magnificence, and respect-compelling beauty...