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discuss it seriously.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS: May
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make a practical suggestion? Why don't you
have a group protest sent to a list of magazines,
The New York
Review of Books, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review,
and so
on, saying they have ignored this.
PETER BROOKS:
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Partisan Review.
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