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...Grenier's linguistic skill runs deeper than assembling musical combinations of tones and letters. He uses the combinations to construct vivid visual and emotional scenes. "Grodek" pictures a battlefield strewn with casualties, among which a nurse walks "to greet the ghosts of heroes, bleeding heads...
...best selections in the Advocate are written by its most common class of contributors--students. While the novelties turn out mediocre, pieces by Robert Grenier, Mary Ann Radner and George Teter carry the magazine. Perennially cursed by its inability to ferret out competent student writers, the Advocate has found several of them for the April issue. And to bust the in-group myth, only three are members of the staff...
...Advocate is long on poets, and the best of them is Robert Grenier. In "The Minnesota Soldiers Home in August" and in translations of three poems by the German writer George Trakl, Grenier coaxes beautiful phonetic effects out of his descriptive language. Rhythmic vowel sounds and alliteration echo through his lines; Consonants roll melodically within his words...
...people working in Cambridge and Boston--the Society recently published Election '64, a 124-page account of the election, including state-by-state analyses. Society members dispatched the reports to all Republican Congressmen, Senators, Governors, national committee members and other important GOP politicians. And people read the report. John Grenier, the Goldwater-selected Executive Director of the National Committee who left after the election fiasco, didn't like the treatment he received and wrote the Society. A Dallas newspaper, lauding the Society's report, demurred only when the report characterized it as "arch-conservative...
...What you do is build a good organization and then wait for a break," explained energetic John Grenier, executive director of the national Goldwater-Miller campaign. "That's what the Kennedys did in 1960, and when their break came - after the" first TV debate - they were ready for it. There are breaks in any election. If you're organized, if you've got a good team, when the hole comes along you can go through like gangbusters." A really big break is obviously what Barry Goldwater badly needs if he is to become President. And in Washington...