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...abstract," and then taunts us with glistening seascapes and fragrant, ripe fruits. The prime difficulty and import of Stevens' work lies here: his subject is at once immanent and idealized, both a radiant presence and a metaphysical abstraction. In a similar fashion, Stevens' best known shorter poems, among them "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself," concern themselves with the poet's subjective experience while invoking such austere, resonant imagery as to leave the reader little room to doubt the poet's constructed world...
...Names like CYBERsitter, Net Shepherd, and TRUSTe provide evidence of the viability of the Internet as a secure environment for children and adults alike. Unfortunately, the main bias of Release 2.0 reveals itself in these chapters. Dyson, who previously urged the reader to remember when "[you had] just turned thirteen" and "you tried to get around the school's blocking software to look at the Playboy site," extends the male-oriented focus of her book with questions like, "Should you have? Should you wear your trousers rolled?" Elevated as her status may be within the world of high-tech information...
...from Provincial Life, the new memoir by J.M. Coetzee, a South African novelist and Booker Prize-winner, ostensibly falls into the final category. In this short and elegantly written book, Coetzee chronicles his childhood in Worcester, a dusty settlement outside of Cape Town. Between the ages of eight and thirteen, the young Coetzee struggles with his Afrikaans identity, quarrels with his parents and pursues a secret double-life...
...Wednesday night, at least 13 candidates were registered during a 25-minute time span from public terminals in the Science Center. Thirteen of these had last names beginning with the letter "A", and all lived in the Southeast Yard...
After the election of Harvard and Radcliffe Class Marshals, House Representative elections will take place in each House. The thirteen House Representatives on the Class Committee aid the Marshals in planning Class activities throughout the senior year. In future years the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1998 will look to the Marshals and Class Committee for leadership in alumni and alumnae affairs...