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Cavafy spun out his Alexandrian mode on two planes simultaneously: the contemporary "sensual city" and the historical "world of Hellenism." His alienation from the real city is most visible in the erotic poetry which sprang from his own experiences--those of a homosexual necessarily but bitterly shackled by the conventions of his milieu. The evolution of these poems from composition to publication reveals a progression from cautious ambiguity to an increasingly more explicit statement of the poet's passions. Such an advancement mirrored Cavafy's developing belief in honest acceptance of one's passions and surroundings, in bowing...
...touring company, they will make a record of their hit production. The BBC and WNET filmed a performance for airing this fall. The first-night audience, filing out of the opera house after the performance, was treated to an impromptu epilogue. A young woman in the crowd sprang up on the fountain and before long her voice was resonating across the plaza proclaiming modern woman's plight. Her speech lacked both the wit and charm of Gertrude S. and Virgil T. But it was a spunky gesture, very much in keeping with the crusading spirit of Susan...
Rural Liberalism. Carter, the product of a family that has farmed the Georgia red dirt for 210 years, the first on his father's side of the family even to finish high school, has deep roots in the Populist tradition. Populism sprang simultaneously from the soil of the Middle West and the South in the early 1890s. The movement started with small farmers rising up against exploitative big-city manufacturers, bankers and railroad owners. In Georgia, Tom Watson, a brilliant lawyer who later became a U.S. Senator, was telling Southern yeomen that they were "the sworn foes of monopoly...
...Arab support, even when it appeared broad, was always thin, because most Arab regimes fear the disruptive presence of the scattered Palestinian refugees within their borders. When Assad's support of the Palestinians waned after the fighting between his forces and the P.L.O., for instance, Egypt sprang to the Palestinian defense. But that Arafat ignored Cairo's support was not so much pro-Palestinian as anti-Syrian: the Egyptians supported the P.L.O. chiefly because they were riled by criticism in Damascus of Cairo's peace negotiations with Israel. Continuing his verbal jousting with Damascus last week, Egypt...
...privacy. It noted that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 guaranteed blacks and whites alike the right to "make and enforce contracts" on an equal basis. This right, the majority held, applies to a private school's enrollment contract. For the hundreds of so-called white academies that sprang up after public school desegregation, particularly in the South, the new decision outlaws a formal whites-only policy. But it probably will not deter academies from citing dozens of spurious reasons for rejecting individual black applicants...