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GIMMICKRY and sentimentality are not enough. A good book of poetry should be both well-written and philosophical, expressing a cohesion of experience. Flying Inland, by Kathleen Spivack, is neither. Spivack's poetry lacks a unifying voice. Each poem remains a solitary, cricket-like rasp, grating in the reader's ear. Nothing justifies printing poor writing in any case, and nothing justifies placing these poems in a collection...
...Cambridge of 80 or 100 years ago was a sedate and well-mannered place, if Cambridge Sketches by Cambridge Authors, published in 1896 by the Cambridge YWCA, is to be believed. This guide to the city is not a work of history, and not even well-written. It is a piece of the myth that people were somehow better off then...
...down is a way of shutting off discussion, not encouraging it. That's true in discourse, and it's also true in reviewing. The advantage derived from a well-written put-down--a moment's entertainment--simply isn't worth the damage to the process of communication...
...destroy Mother Nature's last stand--a 2001-type monolith which, in this case, is a wooden post. But what can the poor boy do? Why, he just takes out a syringe and shoots up. Society has destroyed its middle-class child, and an insight often stated in a well-written paragraph has been clumsily transformed into an atrocious two-hour film...
...summary, my suggestion is merely that your staff take as an example the well-written, accurate reportage of last year and attempt to do justice to an exceptional effort by the crews with an accurate effort in coverage. Richard A. Prentke Freshman Lightweight Crew Coach