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Napoleon was not the only one who failed to grasp this essential rule. Eve Merriam, a poet who should know better, has broken it in her latest book, The Nixon Poems. Eve Merriam is no mean poet, and some of her work has been quite first-rate. She is one of the few winners of the Yale Younger Poets Prize who have ever been heard from again. This latest collection fails miserably, however, because of its subject, not its author. No great poetry can be written about Richard Nixon, for he is not important to men or to mankind...
Though most critics gave the dictionary good marks, some argued that the Random House or Merriam-Webster dictionaries were better all-round books. The publishers do not brood over criticisms. Besides, the graduation season will soon begin, and that is one of the best-selling times of the year for the men who market dictionaries...
...Although aluminium canoes are preferable for white-water canoeing, fiberglass is perfectly adequate for idyllic cruising," George R. Merriam '69 of the Harvard Outing Club said yesterday. "The fiberglass boat is over-priced--$169 for the 11-footer--but it will probably sell well. Most of the Coop's customers don't really know much about what they are buying," Merriam said...
...troubles, offered both of these. In addition, he is lending the company $5,000,000 for operating expenses. As a result, the banks agreed to extend the Curtis loan, much of which will be paid off when the company completes the sale of its Philadelphia headquarters to John W. Merriam, a Philadelphia real estate developer, for $7,300,000; Curtis will then lease back for five years the 50% of the building it currently occupies...
...addition to the eight juniors announced Saturday, Phi Beta kappa has elected George R. Merriam III, Kirkland, Chemistry and Physics. The ommission was due to an error in the Registrar's Office...