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...current model for many younger poets is Robert Creeley, 45, a onetime colleague of Olson's at Black Mountain. Creeley writes poems of a haiku-like brevity, petering out on an exhausted breath, sometimes fixed in the senses by only the faintest suggestion of an image. One poem-on poetry-goes like this...
...Herman Kahin is lying. I heard that speech, and the CRIMSON's version was accurate, if brief. There wasn't the faintest suggestion in Kahn's statements that he considered morality too complex an issue. Indeed, his attitude was one of simple scorn. Kahn very cavalierly dimissed moral factors as irrelevant and, despite his claims to the contrary, made no distinctions between kinds of moral arguments. His view was that if you use moral arguments, "it implies that you're better than anybody else" (Kahn's version of "who're you to decide what's right?"). After some mumbling along...
...exciting thing about the Kentucky Derby this year is that no one really has the faintest idea about who is going to win. Ever since Hoist the Flag got injured and faded from the Derby picture, every owner and trainer from here to Zanzibar has fancied that he has the horse that can run a mile and a quarter faster than the rest on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs...
...S.D.S. button, her "Kill the Pigs" button, her bib overalls or her carefully teased blonde Afro wig. He didn't even wince when she accidentally let loose a - and a - over the Chianti, and a Holy -! and a - during the spaghetti. In fact, I could only see the faintest spark behind his Coca-Cola green glasses when she patted his shiny bald dome. I knew, though, that somewhere behind those shades Luke was figuring exactly how many kilowatts it would take to straighten out that Afro and melt those buttons. "She is a nice girl," he hissed...
...than the forces of party politics, still unconvinced, sought to deceive and insult the very voters who had, over the past months, been forced to sift through the reckless rhetoric and shallow nonissues of one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history to find even the faintest trace of substance and meaning...