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...familiar to serious students of poetry. Otherwise he is little known outside Poland and the Slavic language department of the University of California at Berkeley. Yet last week Czeslaw Milosz (pronounced Chess-wahf Mee-wash), 69, an émigré poet-scholar and naturalized American citizen, won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...offensive. The Blacks in the film are ridiculously stereotyped; Toomer, known as a "boy," even to young Meechum, who is portrayed as one of Toomer's closest friends; Toomer's mother, an enormous Black woman who loves her job as a maid, and is obsequious in her gratitude toward Mee chum for going out late one night to help Toomer defend himself against some local budding Klansmen. Carlino destroys the impact of the protest against the treatment of Blacks by portraying the grateful nigger, grateful to the white men who have made him a present of his inalienable rights...
Eklund dislikes such terms as "quotas" and "reverse discrimination." Instead, he speaks of "goals" and "accelerated development". He sets the the hiring and promotion goals and passes the word down from the top that managers had better mee them, "because it's part of their own performance evaluation...
SEIZURE by Charles I. Mee, Jr. M. Evans; 216 pages...
...this richly researched account of the case, Author Charles L. Mee Jr. Kazin (Meeting at Potsdam, A Visit to Haldeman and Other States of Mind) enters the territory of the brain like a 16th century explorer, carefully and vividly explaining the 100 billion neurons, the axons and synapses and neurotransmitters- all of the brain's intellectual brightwork, an area still so profoundly mysterious as to be almost unthinkable...