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...Doves, si! Pigeons, no! Like many another antiwar, pro-environment oracle, Poet Ezra Pound finds himself bitterly torn between those two cousins of the Columbidae family. In his translation from an Italian poem, the poet pounds the swarms of pigeons in the city of Venice that are, he says, "besmirching crowned heads, defiling brows and memorials . . . mocking the monuments which overshadow us." Besides, he complains, he abhors their habit of dumping "corrosive superfluities suddenly on the heads of pedestrians...
...SI PUEDES by Peter Matthiessen. 372 pages. Random House...
...Si: You gotta get him signed up before he makes other commitments...
Referring to Addonizio's election, Little Joe DeBenedictis told Si Rega: "You know, Si, it's going to take three weeks, but we'll own this Hughie. This guy here, I'll guarantee we'll own him." De Carlo added: "Well, when you see him today, tell him that if he ever does business with more than one guy, he won't last." Another time, De Carlo was quoted as telling an associate: "Hughie helped us along. He gave us the city...
...première of Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki's Si. Luke Passion, Germany...