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William Ferguson's "Father and Son" does not explicitly reiterate the Hawkes and Kozol theme suggested by its title. Its simple diction yields no readily paraphrasable theme at all, yet the poem has a strange power. Worth seeking out, it may urge readers toward concurrence with Eliot's precept, that superior poetry can communicate much before it is wholly "understood...
...Shade. "Character is fate." The Heraclitean precept has been mislaid by a generation of moviemakers more concerned on the whole with their medium than with Man. In this resolutely ordinary yet oddly powerful little picture, a Czech director named Jiří (pronounced Yershee) Weiss, a British scriptwriter named David Mercer
...little difficult to suggest what it is that Grenier has accomplished, just as it was once difficult to understand what he promised. In a way, he fulfills William Carlos Williams' example and Charles Olson's precept together (Projective Verse , 1959: "A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it, by way of the poem to, and all the way over to, the reader.... Form is never more than an extension of content.... One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further...."). But he is wholly sui generis; his present work seems to be of infinite potential...
...school milk program. Any plan to take milk away from the kiddies is not going to get very far in Congress. Johnson also trimmed his allowances for emergency disaster relief by $100 million on the theory that there will be fewer disasters in 1967, a kind of Parkinsonian precept that the number and gravity of disasters depend upon how much money will be available for alleviating them...
...that "something" must come from the actor. Here, the craft of acting is explained to its creative depths, and each actor is an individual artist, within the bounds of ensemble acting--that is, without upstaging anyone else. The simple precept of acting--"If you can believe yourself, then I'll believe you"--rules at Trinity Square...