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...DIED. GYULA OBERSOVSZKY, 74, Hungarian poet and journalist who played a leading role in the failed 1956 revolt against Soviet rule; in Budapest. On the second day of the uprising, Obersovszky founded an independent newspaper, Truth, and after the revolt's repression launched a samizdat called We Are Alive. Sentenced to hang for organizing demonstrations against the Red Army, Obersovszky was saved after the intervention of Western intellectuals, including Bertrand Russell...
...green ganja leaf design that he says lets the ladies know, "I can get you high." With his close-cropped hair, wide cheekbones and enormous grin, Fai may not be the most attractive representative of his gender - he also has the chronic slouch and bob of a beat poet - but looks aren't everything. Confidence and a smooth tongue can take a man much farther than a pretty-boy face. Fai knows it and, apparently, works it. According to his friend Luca, "He has an intuition to know when a girl wants to be approached." If that doesn't make...
...future poet and essayist only took second place in the competition, perhaps indicative of the high standards students were once held to for elocution...
Here is how the poet Brooks Haxton, in his fine new translation of Heraclitus, Fragments, the Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus (Viking; 99 pages; $19.95), puts the thought: "The river/where you set/your foot just now/is gone--/those waters/ giving way to this,/now this...
Perhaps Pi Day was overshadowed by the Ides of March the next morning. The Ides are easily remembered; they have a great hero in Caesar and a great poet in William Shakespeare. Pi too has its heroes, Archimedes and Lindemann, and a poet in Dante, who in his Divine Commedy wrote eloquently about the geometer's inability to square the circle--"Qual e 'l geometra che tutto s'affige / per misurar lo cerchio, e non ritrova, / pensando, quel principio ond' elli indige..." But I don't speak Italian, and it seems that for the moment the guy who writes...