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Shaplin cited the city regulation stating that the committee had to "reconsider the appointments immediately" upon presentation. Edward Fitzgerald, Shaplin's most voluble opponent, revealed that "authorities" had told him that "immediately" could be construed as "within 30 days." His motion was passed, empowering Mayor Edward Sullivan, the chairman, to call a special meeting to consider the petition...
...ROSE OF TIME (150 pp.)-Robert Fitzgerald -New Directions...
...good and a great poet lies in the lyricism, evocation and after effect of his oracular lines and, most important, in the cry of recognition drawn from the reader. This collection of poems, written over the past 25 years, falls far short of greatness, yet has extraordinary appeal. Fitzgerald blends his commitment to the present with a deep love of the pagan past (with Dudley Fitts, he has ably translated Sophocles' Oedipus Rex), and his work flickers in and out of the centuries. A singing Georgic to husbandry...
Essentially, Fitzgerald is a reportorial poet: what he has felt does not come so easily, but what he has seen and experienced, he can transmit beautifully. There is the omnivorous movie screen ("A square of sucking brilliance in the dark"), a storm-tossed ship, the shock of an operation...
...Fitzgerald writes of loneliness and puzzled men, of the ancients crying on their gods and moderns trembling in the night, of war and love and the waiting grave. He tries his hand (not too happily) at a new translation of Catullus' famed lament for his dead brother, and does better with one of the Roman poet's many farewells to his tartish Lesbia. The final poem of the book, History, combines his sense of the past with the immediacy of the present, his feeling for place with his reverence for God. And the concluding lines, though aimed...