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...some in stances only coarse hemp wrapped around a square of gumpoles - through the jungle and bush and across plains flooded by heavy rains. They arrived by donkey, on bicycles, in wooden-wheeled oxcarts and World War I jalopies, or came clutching the sides of slim leaky boats hewn from tree trunks...
...Wilbur gave a reading from his poems here a week and a half ago. There were about 150 people in Burr B when he arrived from dinner at the Signet. It may have been the incongruity of the room, the Delphic tiers of the lecture hall dwarfing the rough-hewn podium, or the poetry itself; somehow the evening was majestic and depressing, and reflective of what poetry has recently become: accomplished, public, ill-at-ease...
...relentless narrative, moreover, takes place early in Khrushchev's regime, when the Soviet Union was first beginning to admit, and partially mitigate, the crudest of Stalin's repressions. For metaphorically inclined readers, it is justifiable to observe that Oleg Kostoglotov, the author's rough-hewn hero, has his relief from cancer (as Solzhenitsyn himself did) in 1955, precisely when the U.S.S.R. was having its first remission of the disease of mass exile and imprisonment...
...became clear last week at Bennington, Vt, where Ruggles' friends, colleagues and neighbors staged a concert of his complete works. There were a song cycle, Vox damans in Deserto, a piano suite called Evocations and a short composition for muted brass called Angels. Most impressive was the granite-hewn intensity of his orchestral miniatures, Men and Mountains, Portals and Organum. His most ambitious work, the tone poem Sun Treader glinted with an ice-age grandeur, evoking craggy ranges and northern lights...
Just don't say that to. the Scots, who invented the game almost 500 years ago. Or to the Canadians, who have made it their No. 1 participant sport, with 750,000 players spread across the country. In the old days, stout Scottish farmers slid their rough-hewn stones across the frozen lochs, nipping liberally on the "whisky punch," long a part of curling tradition as "the usual drink in order to encourage the growth of barley." The game was carried to Canada in the mid-1700s by Scottish soldiers who melted cannon balls into 60-lb. "irons...