Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dugan, last year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. This is certainly a refreshing change from the surfeit of pseudo-Lowell which burdens other magazines. Bidart's conversations are pleasantly conversational, and his imagery works primarily to advance the narrative. With deceptive simplicity, he sketches the complex relationship between the poet and his subject in these lines...
...issue is Newton Kershaw's "A Matter of Love," and I found it hard to decide what kind of game he's playing here. The plot is saccharine even by the standards of the traditional Harvard sex story, so Stephen and Maria, "two very unordinary students," share a special relationship which features endless avowals of their love (the word is used a record thrity-three times) and a never-to-be-equalled scene in which they sit, naked, in Stephen's living room, listening to Beethoven. Not surprisingly, they retire to his bedroom as "Beethoven erupted in his finale...
While the present national leaders of NSA have refused to comment on the extent of CIA influence, past officials--some who knew of the relationship and some who did not--are beginning to talk. They indicate that the CIA groomed the leaders of the NSA's International Commission and that the agency has had access to student reports on young leaders from this and other countries...
...relationship with the CIA is too serious to be dismissed, as one delegate did publicly yesterday, as a mistake that NSA must never repeat. In fact, the mistake may be serious enough to mean the dissolution...
Many of its members are openly embittered by NSA's secretly arranged relationship--one verging on dependence--with the CIA. Many young idealists who devoted a year or more to NSA work are understandably claiming that they were duped...