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...years ago, when Dana Gioia published the title essay to his collection Can Poetry Matter? in the Atlantic Monthly, he caused nothing short of a literary scandal. The Atlantic received more mail than it had in years. Publications as far flung as the Times Literary Supplement and USA Today printed spin-off discussions. Even international radio stations picked up the story. All this over an evaluation of contemporary verse...
...PENTAGON HAS QUIETLY ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF AN Italian air base, just in case the Yugoslav conflict triggers international military action. Under an agreement signed in October, 12 American F-16 FIGHTING FALCONS would hop over from Germany and park at Gioia del Colle, south of Bari, Italy, when needed. The Italians have also agreed to allow expanded U.S. operations at Sigonella Air Station in Sicily...
Cabot House resident Raffaele B. Gioia '88 said Mayman's successor should be "a person who is accessible, responsive, and acts upon student needs, who can incorporate their work into the house...
...Gioia Diliberto...
...most famous people in the nation simply because of a debutante party. She repudiated her promiscuous mother and grandmother, both coarse social climbers who married for money, and retreated into reclusiveness, alcoholism and drug addiction. Alas, the poor little rich girl is now an American cliche, but Gioia Diliberto's carefully researched portrait offers a wealth of revealing social history...