Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the lightest of the poems by various hands, liberally scattered through the text. Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" recalls an oversize catch: "victory filled up/ the little rented boat . . . until everything/ was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!/ And I let the fish go." John Ciardi celebrates "The Lung Fish," a survivor intact from prehistoric epochs: "If no/ creature is immortal, some/ are more stubborn than others." And Robert Lowell hopes that "when shallow waters peter out," he will be able to "catch Christ with a greased worm" and save his soul. The Fisherman notes, "Lowell was a Christian...
Those faces were of many colors, giving credence to keynote speaker Jesse Jackson's exhortations about the prospects for a Rainbow Coalition. Three years ago Jackson spoke to a crowd that was almost exclusively white. This year there was a heavy Latino contingent and significant representation from the Black community. Six years of the Reagan Administration's attacks on the poor and people of color at home and abroad have pushed together constituencies that were once separated...
This bifocal approach to the U.S. is hardly new: J.B. Priestley and his wife Jacquetta Hawkes did it in Journey Down a Rainbow 30 years ago. Nor is the Nicolson credulity a blessing: Adam describes a movie executive as "one dissertation short of a PhD at Harvard . . . Sometimes -- that was the crucial word -- he didn't think the hassle was worth the money." Generally, however, the men breeze through their missions with the jaunty patrician charm of the charmed. The cross fire of their letters -- a burst from Nigel, a counterburst from Adam -- is the British equivalent of the nautical...
Willow Jazz Club--Phil Wilson and the Berklee Rainbow Band...
Willow Jazz Club--Phil Wilson and the Berklee Rainbow Band...