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Does a "gay culture" really exist? Are there general tendencies in the gay a community towards the same cultural icons and institutions? The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and just released in paperback, Wayne poetic sensitivity, at the same time expressing his deep personal love for the world of grand opera...
...novel, Call It Sleep (1934), was published. This intense, impressionistic account of a young Jewish boy's first years among the vibrant immigrant life of Manhattan's Lower East Side drew some favorable notices. It was also panned in a few left-wing and radical journals for being too poetic and personal, selfishly autobiographical and insufficiently attentive to the class struggle then being underscored by the Great Depression...
...laugh? Because we do not grasp how, in the words of Towards a Theory of Art by an apparatchik named G. Nedoshivin, once "the basis in reality of this contradiction between poetry and truth is itself destroyed, then the truth of the social order itself appears deeply poetic . . . This is realized in socialist society...
...Piano" has the quality of a comet bursting forth in a year in which cinematic greatness has been rare. It showcases a sensual and poetic sensibility which has for the most part been absent in the history of film. In order to do this, the movie takes many risks, and brings them off spectacularly. Jane Campion has fashioned a filmic masterpiece, one woman's private symphony. Let yourself be seduced by the wondrous music of this peerless "Piano...
Colgate now moves on to tournaments in San Francisco and New York City. As for Harvard, the search for poetic justice (in the form of wins) continues...