Causa Causans

SEGMENTS She peeled the orange tenderly as if it were a letter from a lover. The air became tangy citrus mist caressing every fragrant breath she took. She pulled the fruity wedge from its vulnerable whole and sucked it soft. Fingers of oily sweetness clung to all she touched, orange prints Separate from the tender hand arranging peel and seed and stringy membrane into another mass of parts, palm-cupped grip on this segment of a life. CORDELIA CANDELARIA CAUSA CAUSANS it is that precious that prized and we must enter with care lest, bereft of sense we make it only sensual (takes months to make a new season) still that other thing works against too much care, and as we are long fire-tested if not yet fireproof oughtn't we make a little haste (only one day moves winter into summer solstice) unless delay unless, of course, delay unless delay of tenderness means not great care about such things unless delay means fire minus glow CORDELIA CANDELARIA ADFL Tenth Anniversary Seminar for chairpersons of college and university language departments Middlebury College Monday to Thursday, 8-11 June 1981 Topics include Proficiency-based language programs • What are suitable proficiency goals? • Can demonstrated proficiency fulfill institutional requirements? Faculty development • Instructional development for both junior and senior faculty • Development of in-service programs for high school teachers Legislation and the profession • Where will government priorities and departmental programs meet? Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 62 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011 (tel. 212 741-5592). ...