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Donald Hall '51, whose book Remembering Poets was partly devoted to Eliot, called Ozick's article remarkable, not for any kind of revolutionary criticism but for its "gross, lengthy, un-New Yorkerish attack." By un-New Yorkerish, Hall says he means that the piece conflicts with the weekly magazine's policy of not doing any articles about authors except in book reviews...
Professor Eloise Knapp Hay of the University of California at Santa Barbara, whose book T.S. Eliot's Negative Way was published in 1982, lambasts Ozick's article in much the same fashion as Hall, calling the author's arguments "stupid," "ridiculous" and "outrageously wrong...
...country, whose political makeup is being shaped by the prodemocracy movement on a day-by-day basis, is now run by a 25-member committee of Communists who took over when the Communist leadership resigned Sunday...
...when the Civil War took place within a 50-year period. Many can not tell where their own state is on a map. Others just don't worry about school and go watch TV. The problem, however, is not the student's fault, but the fault of a society whose sole mission over the past 50 years has been to promote democracy abroad. Well, the risk of expansionary communism has been eliminated, and it is time to properly educate the students of America. Without educating our students, the United States runs the risk of turning into a second- or third...
...council balks, however, the commission has vowed to take its proposals to the voters as a ballot initiative, which may assure victory since Californians tend to approve such measures. Once enacted, Los Angeles' no-nonsense ethics rules could become the model for municipalities like New York City and Chicago, whose current guidelines are not as tough. Says Bruce Jennings, an associate at the Hastings Center, an ethics institute in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: "Cities will see the Los Angeles code as a bellwether for what the public expects of government officials...