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Mike Hollern and Rod Anderson are major scoring threats for the Green, and Dirk Frankenberg is a more than competent goalie. Frankenberg's biggest trouble is usually his own temper; but unfortunately there will not be enough Crimson fans at Hanover this weekend to get it stirred...
...Mike Hollern and Rod Anderson, the Big Green play a fast, aggressive brand of hockey which should put the varsity's skating ability to the test. And defensively, Dartmouth's goalie, Dirk Frankenberg, has allowed very few scores so far this season. But Dartmouth has troubles of its own; after winning its opening two games, the team took a Western tour, suffering four straight defeats at the hands of Minnesota. Since then, however, it has gained victories over Army and Princeton, while losing to Middlebury College...
Similarly, Frankenberg shows how Poet E. E, Cummings intends his wrenchings of language, typography and punctuation as devices to praise the individual "human" in man and to satirize his faceless "public" front; how the delicate verses of Poetess Marianne Moore pounce on details of sight and touch in a way prose seldom does ("the blades of the oars moving together like the feet of water-spiders...
...midway through Pleasure Dome in an essay on Insuranceman-Poet Wallace Stevens, Frankenberg suddenly takes a deep dive into little-magazine jargon, while the eager reader waits expectantly on the bridge between prose and poetry. Author and reader never quite meet again, and from here on, if the reader is to get across that bridge, he has to do it by himself...
...Records. The album of records accompanying Frankenberg's book is good & bad in about the same proportions as the book itself. Unfortunately, poets are not necessarily the best readers of their work. Poetess Moore reads her verse as if she had just been frightened by a ferocious rabbit, Poetess Elizabeth Bishop as if she were a bored high-school sophomore, Poet Cummings as if he were an English gentleman slightly repelled by his own rowdy verses, and Poet-Physician William Carlos Williams as if he were droning out a prescription for a head cold...