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Once we sailed north of England, past Iceland, to Boston. There were constant storms, and one night aurora borealis was out. Lookout was on the bridge--you would have been washed from the bow the way a seatainer trailor was washed from its lashings. Standing there and sighting along the ship, you felt yourself rise with a rumble over a wave, plunging down into the black night water. Then the foam broke over the bow and your eyes without moving your head were turned to those green and white fireworks in the sky. Up and down, black and light...
...although many critics would argue that either Antonio Machado or Miguel Hernandez among his contemporaries was a finer writer. Lorca was a romantic, and what he restored to the literature of Spain was the tragic vision that Cervantes understood and that left Hemingway mesmerized. "It is Spanish," said Actress Aurora Bautista of Lorca's greatest play, Yerma. "We are unused to things Spanish." And unused, too, to the terrible directness of vision that illuminated Lorca's best writing, as in his poem Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, in which he speaks of the death of a matador...
...commencement exercises, which will begin at 11 a.m. on June 12, will be held in the Radcliffe Yard. Mrs. Bunting will also address the Class of '63, and present diplomas to the graduating seniors. B. Gibson Lewis, Jr., minister of the First Presbyterian Church of East Aurora, New York, and chaplain of this year's Commencement, will deliver the traditional closing prayer. This June, for the first time, Radcliffe graduates will receive Harvard diplomas...
With his mother at the time of her death, Hughes left shortly afterward to fulfill speaking engagements in Toronto and Montreal. He will spend a day at Wells College, in Aurora, N.Y., before returning to New York City for the funeral on Tuesday...
...Normal Life. By the rarest chance, Ro Anne Campbell had her operation while Patricia Karen Holten of Aurora was starting back to school after a speedy recovery from the same sort of surgery. And Patricia had a similar medical history: first a heart murmur, then gradually failing strength until an operation seemed unavoidable. But to the surgeons who opened her chest two years ago, her aortic narrowing seemed inoperable. Last summer Patricia went to Dr. Arthur E. Prevedel, 44, who put her into Children's Hospital in Denver. He worked plastic tubes through arm veins into both sides...