Word: kozol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Following is an excerpt from onathan Kozol's controversial speech delivered last Sunday at the Ford Hall Forum. Kozol, a Harvard graduate currently teaching in Newton, was fired from the Boston School System in 1965 for reading a poem by Langston Hughes to his largely Negro class. His book, Death at an Early Age, was published recently...
Important as I take this flaw to be, it is not overwhelming, and Jones' later moments are almost atonement. John Lithgow as Sparky is, predictably enough, superb throughout as is Jack White as the changeable bargee. Roger Kozol who stood in for Ross as Hurst will, with any sort of justice, become a legend. It is said that he learned the part in one night and took an hour exam yesterday Kozol used a book, of course, but he was acting, not reading...
...show will go on tonight. If Ross is still unable to perform, Roger E. Kozol '68 will take his place. Kozol was recruited for the part yesterday afternoon and spent last night rehearsing with the Musgrave company...
...Quoting Kozol out of context, or summarizing his story, cannot possibly convey the general restraint which allows such horrors to be mastered and integrated smoothly. His short, firm sentences, with their simple rhythms, have great incorporative power. Furthermore, the characters of David's dream repeat phrases that sound supremely factual and establish reassuring landmarks in our yoyages through the subconscious. Thus the wrestling coach: "Schreiber, I want you to such a lemon: when the acid gets on your tonsils it turns to sugar...
William Ferguson's "Father and Son" does not explicitly reiterate the Hawkes and Kozol theme suggested by its title. Its simple diction yields no readily paraphrasable theme at all, yet the poem has a strange power. Worth seeking out, it may urge readers toward concurrence with Eliot's precept, that superior poetry can communicate much before it is wholly "understood...