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...together. The dominant impression is one of spaciousness and particles (words, poems) emphasized by their well-planned isolation in white space. Poems flower out onto the pages, or waterfall down them, or squat like fertility goddesses statuesque against the white. Then too, illustrations recur at intervals never longer than four pages--illustrations mostly that caress the eye, or that sit back and wait to be scratched, or that just purr. Vicki Minnis '77 did Diaspora's cover of cavorting silhouettes, as well as two impressively simple, almost monumental lithographs inside. Several of Lydia Bassett's 79 drawings reveal the influence...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Crying in the Desert | 5/21/1976 | See Source »

...failures of the student movement has been its too-specific focus on situations and villains, at the expense of examining the processes that create them and make them recur. Similarly, the despair in students' lives now is not the product of specific circumstances or individuals. It is a story without any villains, the story of what is left in the wake of a period of idealism and vision that failed. Its central characteristic is not an embracing of the status quo or a blindness to its failings, but a sense of its irrevocability. The vast majority of students here...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...author of the report, said yesterday that the study, which lasted from 1968 to 1973, could not show follow-up survival rates even though it did demonstrate success at comparable stages of initial recovery. It often takes ten to 15 years to determine that cancer will not recur...

Author: By Marc Witkin, | Title: Radiation v. Masectomy | 11/12/1975 | See Source »

...about Vietnam. The dead wouldn't mind, the theory seemed to be, and the living could trust in the benevolence of God or the Times's well placed friends to see that the "scenes of blood and horror" that "stun the emotions and make imagination a beggar" didn't recur somewhere else. In the meantime, the Times suggested that Indochina be seen "as an earthquake, not a battlefield...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Last War Dispatches | 4/9/1975 | See Source »

Discovering the truth about the Rosenbergs is not simply an academic problem. It is essential, particularly in light of recent events, to examine any possible abuse of governmental power so that steps can be taken to make sure that it does not recur. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg should be alive today. The sickness which killed them, a paranoid fear of deviancy, may be less prevalent in America today than it was twenty-one years ago, but it is still very much with...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: A Controversy Renewed | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

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