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Richard Tillinghast is utterly fluent, "Not Being There" is not one of his best, but his expert use of the first person singular and infallible control over the progression of a poem enable him to be both professional and insurrectionary. And Robert Shaw offers a long, successful suite of voices from a madhouse, something like Spoon River Anthology. Shaw handles forms extermely well; his quatrains make him the most entertaining poet in the issue...
...crammed Soviet spaceship Luna 10 was busily recording and reporting man's first continuous supply of data about the lunar environment. Though the Russians did not tell all they learned, the information they did release confirmed that their distant capsule was carrying out its fact-finding mission with singular success...
...scrubbing the grease trap in the mess hall. When he warned his company commander that unless the persecution stopped he would inform the press, he was charged with "wrongful communication of a threat" and "extortion." Despite the chaplain's testimony that he was only guilty of immaturity, singular lack of judgment and stubbornness, a general court-martial sentenced him to 18 months in the stockade and a bad-conduct discharge. The sentence was eventually cut in half, and Schmidt was given a "general discharge," which ranks somewhere below "honorable" but does not carry the stigma of "dishonorable...
...Donleavy, author of "The Ginger Man," "A Singular Man," and "The Summer of Samuel S.," will read from his recent work at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House JCR. Tickets available at the Coop and at the door...
...turned out instead to be a donnish Johnson. Political commentators from all parts of the spectrum have remarked upon Wilson's exceptional political skill. His singular achievement has been to move his party in from the left, blur distinctions between the parties on a range of issues, and, at the same time, demonstrate that Labour can, after all, govern with prudence and responsibility. Even the Tories have ceased to raise the spectre of socialism's red ruin to frighten the electorate...