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...Springfield insurance company that had previously donated $6,000 to Shannon's senate campaign. According to local press reports--denied by Kerry--the Kerry campaign actively peddled the story to area media and than volunteered that he was shocked and astounded by the revolutions. It was perhaps poetic justice that an executive of the company revealed that Kerry had approached the same insurance firm for campaign donations, only to be turned down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tap Shannon... | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...Springfield insurance company that had previously donated $6,000 to Shannon's senate campaign. According to local press reports--denied by Kerry--the Kerry campaign actively peddled the story to area media and then volunteered that he was shocked and astounded by the revelations. It was perhaps poetic justice that an executive of the company revealed that Kerry had approached the same insurance firm for campaign donations, only to be turned down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tap Shannon... | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

Howard's biography is shrewd and intelligent and supplies all the details about Margaret Mead, down to her recipe for salad dressing. Bateson's memoir is more an act of poetic intuition. Yet she is blunter than Howard about her mother's affairs with lovers of both sexes, and more specific about the earth mother's need to be mothered herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Most Famous Anthropologist | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...almost any poet who can produce evidence of medical mental care." Poetry, for Larkin, is emphatically "an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are." For him the two writers who have done that best in recent times are Thomas Hardy ("many times over the best body of poetic work this century so far has to show") and John Betjeman, the last laureate, who is cited as "a poet for whom the modern poetic revolution has simply not taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-modern | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

Earlier contributors to the collection were Professors Child and Kittridge, who worked on English poetic fragments and oral traditions of other cultures. There has been a tradition of 120 years of a continuous research in oral literature at Harvard...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: Widener Collection Documents Culture | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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