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...Allen Tate's life and work are a challenge to people who have stopped reading poems and an inspiration to those who have not. His creative voice, at times distinctly Southern, speaks of much more than a single region of the country. He speaks with quiet authority, from powerful inner pressure, not to please crowds or win notoriety, though his eighteen published volumes of poetry, criticism, biography and fiction have brought him many honors...
...poet, Tate looks at the modern man who has been cut off from his past and whose heart has been overwhelmed by his mind. As a man, he has always striven to be the kind of poet who does not forget his past and who speaks from heart and mind with equal feeling...
...seventy-one, his poetic voice is strong and his speaking voice mellow, as if he just sipped a special elixir--tea and honey, perhaps. Sitting in Robert Fitzgerald's office before his afternoon reading at Boylston auditorium. Tate looks every bit the Southern gentleman--debonair, impeccably dressed, a hint of Basil Ransom, years after The Bostonians, but with the high forehead and thin, tapered fingers reserved for artists and poets...
...chose to live apart. Even so, whites over the years have steadily erected barriers to integration; monochromatic neighborhood schools were not just an accident. "Governmental actions and inaction at all levels-federal, state and local-have combined with those of private organizations, such as loaning institutions and real es tate associations and brokerage firms, to establish and maintain the pattern of residential segregation...
Machined Mosaics Every art show is an archive, but none more explicitly so than the retrospective now at London's Tate Gallery. It runs from elaborate silk-screen prints dedicated to Wittgenstein to a giant chrome-plated combat boot; from a stack of bombs to a sprawling collection of clippings, toys, scraps and Mickey Mouse emblems hoarded by the artist over the past 30 years. It has all been assembled by Sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi, 47, an amiable, lowering Scottish-Italian with lobster-claw hands and the build of a robot. The show, a melange of art work and subject...