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...students in the audience had various criticisms to offer on the format. While Vivian Wong of the Harvard Advocate thought its was a generally good idea to get poetry out into the public spaces, she felt" the program could use a little more structure"--some unifying theme. Sheila Melvin was more direct in her criticism. Referring to the almost condescending nature of the selections, she said that "poets shouldn't come to the people, people should come to the poets...
While agreeing with Wong that the event was a worthwhile idea, Melvin also criticised the general quality of the readings as "poor." Many of the readers assumed a drawing room tone, which might have sufficed in a library but which could not keep the attention of listeners under a glaring mid-afternoon sun. The few instances of enthusiasm and creative eccentricity on the part of the reader elicited warm response from an otherwise listless audience...
After a series of hearings, Cambridge Health and Hospitals Commissioner Melvin H. Chalfen citing the risk to Cambridge residents, issued an unprecedented restriction on the use of nerve gas agents within city limits in March...
Xenophobia is not the force behind today's serious efforts to reform immigration. Simpson and other proponents recognize that most new immigrants, like the generations who came before them, work long and hard, and as much as possible on their own. Says Melvin Holli, professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago: "Their work ethic serves them well, and it serves us well. In a sense, they are refurbishing our work ethic." The new immigrants, says Lawrence H. Fuchs, chairman of American Studies at Brandeis, "have gumption, courage, ambition. They want...
...doubt that it could be put into practice any time soon, if at all. Says David Glasner, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: "Workers simply prefer having a known wage rate and do not want to take the risk of a variable income." Contends Melvin Reder, a professor of urban and labor economics at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business: "Weitzman's proposal is like the advice of a philosopher to a King, not to a President and Congress in a democratic society...