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...spartan rooms at Harvard's Adams House, the poet can be persuaded to summon up his youth in County Derry, outside Belfast. "I was one of eight surviving children," he recalls. One of his earliest poems, "MidTerm Break," records the funeral of his young brother, struck by a car and buried in "a four foot box, a foot for every year." Young Seamus might have followed his father into the fields, had he not been introduced as a teen-ager to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Roman Catholic convert who became a priest and master poet...
...asked him how basketball was going. "Terrible," he said. He had made what he thought was the last cut. The varsity team was at 16 when, the day before his first Harvard midterm, the coach called to tell him he'd been cut. "I could hardly concentrate on studying," he said. And he actually considered leaving Harvard...
...other business, the council approved a resolution changing the election process for vacated seats. The amendments to the bylaws will allow the representatives from the district and the district's house committee chairman to appoint a successor until midterm elections are held at the end of the fall semester. Under the previous by-laws, a special election--administered by the council's vice-chair--filled each vacancy as it occurred...
Analyst Horace Busby, a former Lyndon Johnson aide, went to Princeton the other day and warned that "unbridled partisanship implants within our free system the seeds of its destruction." A collision is coming, he said. "Americans are demanding performance, not partisanship, not provocations, not promises." The Democrats in their midterm convention in Philadelphia last summer seemed like a collection of caucuses (gays, women, blacks, et cetera) fiercely loyal only to themselves. If there was a transcending theme, nobody caught it amid all the self-centered statements and accusations...
Barrett's midterm report on the Reagan Administration has already prompted news coverage of unknown or underreported events. A Reagan "mole" obtained President Carter's point-by-point strategy for the candidates' televised debate. Aide Richard Darman spirited away copies of constitutional documents to keep the Cabinet from weighing Reagan's fitness to hold office after he was shot. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, then manager of George Bush's presidential campaign, announced Bush's withdrawal from the California primary without consulting the candidate. But the book offers more than nuggets...