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...reader" of the bunch, and his essay successfully solves the problem which trips up many of his co-authors, making the careful analysis of particular poems yield insights into the writers' general concerns and methods. William Taylor (on his way to Wisconsin), who has the unenviable task of making Parkman's De Salle interesting, also succeeds where others fail, by skillfully combining description of the author's life and personality with intelligent evaluation of his book and its significance...
...majority of these essays is the sense of what used to be called "vocation"; the three essays I singled out have it, and that makes them exciting. De Man is obviously fascinated by the overt mysticism of Yeats and the more furtive strangeness of Wordsworth; Taylor really sees in Parkman a figure whose own history made his writings something a great deal more interesting than mere chronicles; while Poirier is dedicated to a particular way of seeing and describing the workings of society and of individuals within it, and has formed a style all his own to express that vision...
Many of those present at the Parkman Bandstand rally were not, however, sympathetic to Turn Toward Peace. A large group of "casual hecklers" gathered in the back of the Bandstand area, and about ten extreme anti-Communists paraded in front of the speakers' podium shouting slogans and disrupting the proceedings at several points...
Lowell completely blanked Davenport, winning each match by a score of 3-0. Number one man on Lowell's team was James Parkman. Charles Elliott, James Johns, Peter Stone, and Thomas Reckford, held the team's second, third, fourth, and fifth places, respectively...
...matches Lowell was defeated only six times this year. Parkman, Elliott, Johns, and Stone were undefeated...