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...Blyden who read off the list of prisoners' demands to the outside mediators at the meetings in cell block D. Ironically, the day that the rebels first met with the negotiators, a letter from Blyden to one of them, State Senator John Dunne, was floating unread through the mails. It contained a restrained appeal for an official inspection tour of Attica. "We have been trying to apprise the public and the news media of conditions for some time, to no avail. Your assistance in these most serious matters is urgently needed...
...parts of Geismar's argument will find modest patches of solid ground. The author is right in stating that Twain is too little known and understood as a critic of U.S. society, and that the harshly satirical writing of his later years, despite recent notice, is still widely unread. Mainly in the past decade, critics have been pointing out the same thing. But for most fond readers, Twain remains a humorist and pastoral novelist...
After a year and a half of intensive preparation, student reformers at Brown, led by BMOC Ira Magaziner, issued a 450- page report recommending extensive changes in the school's undergraduate curriculum. Their report was released in January, 1968; yet by June, it remained virtually unread...
MAGAZINER returned to school in the fall of 1968 determined not to allow his Report to lie about unread. Now a senior and "the head of everything at Brown," as one student put it, he and his followers organized themselves into what they called the Central Committee. They educated other students about the purposes of educational reform. They spoke in dorms, published a newsletter, and drew on their contacts to organize rallies of a thousand students in behalf of their curriculum proposals. They sought to see every professor in the University in his office to discuss the specifics...
...first fruit of that freedom was Pale Fire. Spectacularly unread, it made no concessions to popular tastes while proving that a genius can write a brilliant novel consisting of a 999-line poem and scholarly comment on it. The book is a wintry, touching parable concerning two of Nabokov's persistent themes?the feeling of being unloved and the horror of willfully inflicted pain. Pale Fire elicited the high-water mark of Nabokov's critical acceptance. Perhaps the most perfect tribute came from Mary McCarthy, a critic rarely given to generosity or overstatemeat: this work, "half poem, half prose...