Word: miriam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writer, Miriam Reik, has claimed, "Were Ireland an African island and its natives black, no one would doubt that Ulster's troubles show the classical symptoms of a colonial struggle." That is true enough. Since the 17th century's Scottish and English Protestant settlers came to Ulster under the protection of the British Crown, the native Catholic minority has been relegated to permanently inferior status. Yet the conflict has a strong tribal aspect, with religion serving as the identifying element, even though groups such as the I.R.A. are now more likely to quote Marx than Jesus. Protestants like...
...work, a few professions and in government. Massachusetts State Banking Commissioner Carol Greenwald, who in 1973 herself became the first part-time officer of the Federal Reserve Bank, has hired two research assistants with different skills to divide one salary. In Palo Alto, Calif., Ruth Freis and Miriam Miller share the post of program director for a network of day-care centers, and Engineer Chris Jako has arranged to split a job planning a science center with Biologist Pat Cross. A few liberal-arts colleges-including Iowa's Grinnell and Ohio's Oberlin-have hired husband-and-wife...
Satterfield's voice is pure, clear, controlled and surprising in its strength. Her material is diverse, including some old Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Gershwin, Miriam Makeba, the theme from an old movie and a jazzy version of the Black National Anthem. She sings everything well, but her tight phrasing works best on the more romantic ballads, especially "Love is Stronger Far than We," Mangione's "Look to the Children" and the title...
...poet is still experimenting with style in this chapbook. If the poems weren't collected under a certain name, you might not guess that they all come from the same writer because Miriam Sagan hasn't settled into a recognizable tone of voice or mode of diction yet. Her work is compiled largely of images. From the careful control she maintains over each of these, it is evident that she is attuned to the way words balance one another. Sometimes this sense shows through as long as the poem lasts. A structure may emerge that is based on poetic techniques...
...Miriam Sagan's women are possessed by a desire that resembles poetry...