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...this measure, American poetry must be ailing. Is there any other art form in this country whose vigor is more dependably extolled? Literary organizations both large and small are forever "celebrating" someone or something--Midwestern poets or Latino poets, farmer poets or cowboy poets, formal poets or rap poets. It all feels sometimes like an extended, floating party. Celebration is certainly the aim of Bill Moyers' eight-part PBS series The Language of Life, whose airing coincides with the publication of a companion book, predictably subtitled A Festival of Poets...
John R. Harrison '55, from Iowa by way ofGeorgia, reflects his roots as a pleasant blend ofsouthern and midwestern folksiness...
...minutewait for a plate of caponata spaghetti is nothingunusual, and where first years learn to dine tothe dull roar of 1,600 of their chatteringclassmates. Many believe that the Union, more thananything else, defines the first-year experience.Never again do students eat Chickwiches with agroup the size of some Midwestern towns...
Cole found that Fargoans do their homework. "Before meeting me," she says, "one businessman insisted on doing a computer data-base search of all the articles I ever wrote." But to Cole, once a "jaded, guarded New Yorker," Midwestern charm has proved contagious; she felt at ease with her subjects. In turn, they readily offered clues of the coming budget cuts to TIME's Fargo north decoder...
...WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT/ DEATH HAD undone so many ." wrote Dante of his descent into the inferno. What was most remarkable, in the aftermath of Oklahoma's sorrow, was that the people were not undone; the sturdy cliches about Midwestern fortitude came to life as an entire city refused to buckle in grief. "We hate and despise the people who did it," said Senior District Judge Fred Daugherty, who survived the blast in his courthouse office next door to the federal building. "But we're a strong and simple folk. We'll rebuild and roll with this thing...