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...Cambridge Civic Association has endorsed five candidates who support its platform of clean government and progressive housing legislation--incumbents David E. Sullivan, Alice K. Wolf, Saundra M. Graham and Francis H. Duehay '55, as well as newcomer Jonathan S. Myers, former director of youth programs for the Cambridge Housing Authority...
...Brodsky was taken under the protection and guidance of W.H. Auden, who had a summer house nearby. Within months he found himself in Ann Arbor, a poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan assigned, as he later whimsically wrote, "to wear out/ the patience of the ingenuous local youth." Since then he has lived steadily in the U.S. (he became a citizen in 1977), teaching, writing and gathering acclaim, including a $208,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation...
...three books of poems translated into English and a collection of essays, Less Than One, published last year. Yet his imagination, steeped in classical and European traditions, seems familiar and accessible to Western readers. Brodsky is a lyricist of loss, of the slipping away of the past, loved ones, youth; his customary tone is one of passion tempered by hard-earned irony. His poems rely heavily on visual impressions, as in this look at the scenery surrounding a state farm: "The horses, inflated casks/ of ribs trapped between shafts,/ snap at the rusted harrows/ with gnashing profiles." Such concrete images...
...between agony and ecstasy. I remain a loyal New Yorker and Yankee fan, but 20 adult years in the shadow of Fenway park have engendered a strong affection for the Sox. The Mets, as an expansion team, are nothing to me because rooting is forged in the fires of youth, and the Mets didn't exist during my stickball days in Queens. So I cast my lot with my adopted Boston and died with the Sox. I will never ever in all the rest of my life be able to think about Game 6 without a shudder...
Besides, all the world loves an underdog, and the Twins were once the Washington Senators, who won only once, in 1924. Shades of Walter Johnson, and all that. But then, I could also see pulling for the Cards. They were among the original eight of my youth, and I have a Bowman 1948 Stan Musial card now worth more than a hundred bucks (thank God I didn't throw that set out with the rest of the shoebox). So, now that the time has come I'm there, rejoicing or dying for my newly rationalized champions...