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  • "Moreover, contrary to Professor Jarrell's suggestion, the 'mosaic theory' is not a defense to insider trading; at best, it is an academic theory about what constitutes nonpublic, material information," the filing said.

    U.S. Seeks to Block Galleon Witness Chad Bray 2011

  • Randall Jarrell's working definition of the novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it" has, in this voluminous work, been ruled out of bounds.

    What Killed American Lit. Joseph Epstein 2011

  • AfriCOBRA becomes a leading visual banner for the Black Power movement, contributing an art of solidarity with black activists (Wadsworth Jarrell's portrait of activist Angela Davis), a didactic and inspirational sense of community (Barbara Jones-Hogu, Unite and Nelson Stevens, Unite Africa), and even a swaggering African-American revolutionary mythos (Jeff Donaldson's Wives of Shango).

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • "Professor Jarrell's economic philosophy about what the law of insider trading 'should be' would supplant this court's role in instructing the jury," Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Streeter said in a court filing late Thursday.

    U.S. Seeks to Block Galleon Witness Chad Bray 2011

  • In Randall Jarrell's curt judgment: "Wilbur never goes too far, but he never goes far enough."

    A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • AfriCOBRA becomes a leading visual banner for the Black Power movement, contributing an art of solidarity with black activists (Wadsworth Jarrell's portrait of activist Angela Davis), a didactic and inspirational sense of community (Barbara Jones-Hogu, Unite and Nelson Stevens, Unite Africa), and even a swaggering African-American revolutionary mythos (Jeff Donaldson's Wives of Shango).

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Instead, he produced an emotional artifact that is both immediately appealing and elusive, a poem that, in Jarrell's words, "is hard to understand, but easy to love."

    'Hard to Understand, but Easy to Love' David Yezzi 2010

  • Instead, he produced an emotional artifact that is both immediately appealing and elusive, a poem that, in Jarrell's words, "is hard to understand, but easy to love."

    'Hard to Understand, but Easy to Love' David Yezzi 2010

  • Again and again the critics have chosen Jarrell's 1953 collection, Poetry and the Age: so much so that former NBCC president John Freeman was moved to reassess that lost (but clearly not forgotten) classic.

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

  • Instead, he produced an emotional artifact that is both immediately appealing and elusive, a poem that, in Jarrell's words, "is hard to understand, but easy to love."

    'Hard to Understand, but Easy to Love' David Yezzi 2010

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