Judy Polumbaum, in Poets & Writers Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 1995), 72 Spring St., New York, N.Y. 10012.
Most observers of cultural developments in China assumed that the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and massacre would have an extremely chilling effect, particularly on Chi- nese literature. But the cultural frost was not as severe as expected. Indeed, literature in China seems to be flourishing today, reports Polumbaum, a journalism professor at the University of Iowa. In the past year alone, about...
Judy Polumbaum, in Poets & Writers Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 1995), 72 Spring St., New York, N.Y. 10012.
Most observers of cultural developments in China assumed that the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and massacre would have an extremely chilling effect, particularly on Chi- nese literature. But the cultural frost was not as severe as expected. Indeed, literature in China seems to be flourishing today, reports Polumbaum, a journalism professor at the University of Iowa. In the past year alone, about...
That maker and breaker of literary reputations, T. S. Eliot, began an essay on Ben Jonson (1572-1637) this way: "The reputation of Jonson has been of the most deadly kind that can be compelled upon the memory of a great poet. To be universally accepted; to be damned by the praise that quenches all desire to read the book; to be afflicted by the imputation of the virtues which excite the least pleasure; and to be read only by historians and antiquaries-this is the most per- fect conspiracy...
a three-
start coming home is very fered, as the surprisingly to-two margin, fighting harder
much in error, contends strong showing dovish in Vietnam, not withdrawing
Schwarz, a RAND researcher. senator Eugene J. McCarthy in from it. Indeed, as disapproval
During the Vietnam and the March 1968 New Hamp- of the original commitment
Korean wars, as the toll of dead shire primary showed. But grew, so did the public's de-
and wounded mounted, polls Schwarz points out that ask- sire to escalate...
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