Word: currents
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Lowellian Apollo has packed some charming sagittae into his current Pharaetra. Aegis-bearers John Berendt and Jeremy Johnston have avoided the inept high seriousness which has so often encumbered the Lowell House poetry magazine, and have come up with a group of pieces composed by scers, whose auburn hair Melpomene herself has no doubt bound with the fragrant laurel...
Among the other delights of the current Pharaetra, Mr. Mason Dixon Harris's Dawn on Land and Sea displays the control and vividness which has marked his recent work; Mr. David Landon plays with quickly changing metaphors; Mr. John Berendt parodies Vachel Lindsay, with particularly ironic intent; Mr. Arthur Levin parodies Mr. Alexander Pope, who tends to resist parody pretty well...
...that I was particularly surprised by Mr. Smith's letter, since I share his hostility to the current fad of foreign policy "images"--a way of expressing oneself which actually figured very little in the conference on December 2 and 3. H. Stuart Hughes, Professor of History...
...complaints about his unimaginative management of cash-heavy Alleghany, Kirby replies that when he took over after Young's death, the stock was selling at 4⅞ but is now selling at 9⅞. Kirby, who believes that the current slump is more serious than most people think, sees no point now in speculating. "In today's market," he say," we make money by not investing...
...record for that month. Housing starts in October rose from September to 109,900, although they continued to trail last year. Said George Cline Smith, vice president and chief economist of F. W. Dodge Corp.: "This activity will help to ensure that the current business dip will be quite mild and of short duration, since construction is the nation's largest fabricating industry...