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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS once claimed that when we argue with someone else, it's rhetoric, but when we argue with ourselves, it's poetry. Irish poet Seamus Heaney conforms to his precursor's observation. In Field Work, Heaney often challenges his decision to write, yet at the same time believes in his own artistic commitment...
...Heaney fuses this dichotomy so convincingly it's difficult to detect it. His indissoluable phrases and sounds don't reflect the labor he has given his verse-making. Each poem artfully avoids the simplistic on the one hand and the obstentatiously convoluted on the other--two qualities that dominate contemporary poetry...
...HEANEY AND ROBIN ROBERTS--Sat. Dec. 8 at St. Paul's School, 8 p.m., $2.00. Party afterwards...
...bluesman Muddy Waters at Paul's Mall and jazz guitarist Larry Coryell at Jazz Workshop... The Chris Rhodes Band, one of Cambridge's most exciting rock-jazz groups, is playing at Tufts Saturday night with Orchestra Luna... Peter Johnson offers another session of traditional music Saturday night with Joe Heaney, an excellent Irish folksinger, and Robin Roberts, who sings and collects folk songs from the United States and the British Isles... Rumor has it that the debut concert of off-key singing team Nixon & Haldeman has been cancelled. Those who already bought tickets will be entitled to listen...
...routinely handles stock orders from mutual funds for only 25% of the fee set by the Big Board, passes on 75% to other exchange members. Last year, he said, Pershing thus surrendered some $6.9 million of its $9.7 million take from mutual-fund and other institutional trading. Michael J. Heaney, a floor partner at the American Exchange, said he was "very happy" to buy and sell for the funds for 30% to 50% of the prescribed minimum fee. "I don't want the full commission," he said. "I couldn't even count it all." A Question of Confidence...