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...University Symposium, "Taste and the Contemporary Arts." Stanley L, Cavell, moderator, with William...
...University Symposium, "Safe fred, Robert G. Gardner, Daniel Seltzer, and Michael Steinberg. Emerson...
...last week in the city's Music Hall, Cindy and her foundation members engaged in some image-changing missionary work. They succeeded. This time the entire community pitched in to help promote what amounted to a Purcell festival. The public library and the University of Missouri sponsored a symposium on the composer's works, and the Kansas City Star published a picture of Purcell (1659?-1695) under the title Man of the Week. For one society ball, a local combo called Bill Brewer and the Nogales Brass, in 17th century costumes, played jazzy variations on Purcell themes...
...afraid," wrote Robert Ely, editor-publisher of The Sixties, "this symposium will be another occasion for self-congratulation by little-magazine editors. So I will say a few rude words. American little magazines are for the most part utterly pointless. Almost all are mediocre. A near example is our host, The Carleton Miscellany. It has had a pointless quality about it ever since...
That was rude enough, but Bly was not the only one with some bile to cough up. A surprising number of the 22 participating editors and former editors thought there was much awry with the proliferating little literary enterprises. Said one of the symposium contributors, William Mathes: "There must be some worth mentioning. I just haven't been able to think of any." One of the problems seemed to be an inevitable conformity. Said Jack Garlington of Western Humanities Review: "The fact that most of us belong to the same class -we're eggheads, whether we admit...