Word: koch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seat can be had for a song. It goes, "Jane Pickens Langley is a woman who cares./ Jane Pickens Langely is a woman who dares./ So pick good Pickens." This singing commercial, taped in German, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish, underpins a breezy, almost folksy campaign against Incumbent Edward I. Koch, 47, a hard-working Democrat. In his appearances at subway and bus stops, Koch stresses his attempts to wrest mass-transportation money from road-subsidy funds, and emphasizes his recent proposal to admit Soviet Jews and Asian Ugandans to the U.S. without regard to immigration quotas. Given Koch...
...exhibits sponsored by the Cambridge Art Association will provide a feast for the eyes, an Advocate poetry reading by Kenneth Koch spice for the ears--and various restaurants will cater to real appetites with special menus and rates designed for the Festival. One of the Square's major commerical events will be a large auction, the profits of which will go to the Festival fund. The idea for this auction reflects the sense of community already growing so rapidly among merchants, students and community, but every shop seems to be coming up with its own little brainstorm for the Festival...
...Koch's attitude toward the children is the most revealing part of his method. Children's poetry, he emphasizes, cannot be poetry if tailored to adult expectations. Encouragement and inspiration are all-important, not merely praise or exposure to poetry of any sort, but the removal of barriers to writing like an insistence on rhyme or the use of complex technical terms, exposure to condescending "poetry for children" or to adult poetry whose images are too crafted to the child-like. All the children in Koch's classes had their poetry read aloud anonymously: they were praise, encourage, and urged...
...Koch writes...
...Koch's experiences with children and the poetry he shown us, like the moving and persuasive letter from Barbians, reveal the ultimate tragedy in any country's failure to use it education resources creatively for all children--the stifling of childhood insight and imagination and the threat to our future source of energy and strength...