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...graphics; almost all the poems and stories inside are more serious and more polished than the usual run of student literature. The soft-spots of the collection are mostly in various short poems; as it turns out, most of them help prove what Dey's manifesto says about journeymen-poets: that they get bogged down in simply mastering details of techniques, that they must be more than occasional poets to catch the eye of an audience, that they have to resist the temptation of formalizing trivial sensations and impressions, and that, somehow, they have to find subjects - or invent them...
...them in his best M.P. accent so they could play in front of three flags, one English, and two American. The band is as expected. Beck's been surrounding himself with mediocrities ever since it became clear he couldn't coexist with Rod Stewart; Bogert and Appice are competent journeymen, but then who's going to see them...
...long hours has caused four veteran American UPI staffers to precipitate a strike in the news agency's London bureau. The four make between $185 and $205 a week, not bad by British standards but far below the minimum of $272 that UPI must pay journeymen in New York. They joined Britain's National Union of Journalists in a bid for shorter work hours, and when the N.U.J. called a walkout to support them, UPI fired 28 British staffers in the London office. With that, the union staged a full-scale strike and ordered all 17 UPI clients...
...critics and reviewers who confer literary status rarely know much about science or technology. Most science-fiction writers, however, browse knowledgeably through specialized journals where many of them find the metaphorical seeds of their novels and short stories. Some, like Isaac Asimov and Arthur Clarke, are trained scientists. Even journeymen practitioners of SF are likely to know more about literature than most novelists and critics know about science. And in the 20th century, ignorance of the fundamentals-and social implications-of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics constitutes an embarrassing form of illiteracy...
...members maintained that Harvard's apprenticeship program, as presently constructed, saves the University money it would otherwise spend on higher journeymen's wages. "We're here not just to win 20 cents for Charles McNeil-which we will," said Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy. "We're here to win a new helper's program...