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Quarterback Tom Singleton showed the Crimson scouts and everybody else Saturday that Yale must be reckoned with on more than just line plunges, however. Opening the game with the expected hand-offs to Blanchard--occasionally on quick counts that caught Princeton off guard--the 6 ft., 1 in., 200 pound senior in the second quarter took advantage of the tightened Tiger defense, which had adjusted to stop bull Blanehard...
...Cressida ("That drunken guy was a riot") and there many of them acquired a further taste for Shakespeare. Ann-Marie "Turtle" Cottagio, who would "love to act professionally," said she would like to do a Shakespeare play next, to which a well over six foot, well over 200 pound football player, Richard Herman replied that he would be Shylock. But Dempsey, the playwright, thinks Shakespeare...
...question of whether Ezra Pound will occupy the footnotes or the chapter headings of future literary history depends, as Biographer Norman concludes, on the poetic merits of the Cantos, a monumental 40-year-long work in progress that has now consumed more writing time than Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past combined. The Cantos are concerned with all history, 20th century history, Pound's personal story, and an eclectic sampling of all he has read. In effect, it is the poetical twin to Finnegans Wake. In sections laden with socio-economic bafflegab, multilingual word play and telegraphic truncations...
...Answer. After his fitful, feverish life, Pound is not resting. He lives in his son-in-law's medieval castle in the Italian Alps, completed Canto No.111 last Christmas, and hopes to push the count to 120. Apart from romping with his grandchildren, he fires Menckenesque letters around the world, and his talk, as he once said, is still "like an explosion in an art museum." He is scarcely a hero, but as minister without portfolio of the arts he has served more gallantly than most, and he has never had any truck with "the almost-good...
Once an Italian journalist asked him about his tragically flawed character: "How is it that you, who merited fame as a seer, did not see?" Ezra Pound could not answer...