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...Lying in a Ditch...
...Davison what he thought of the extreme tendency in modern poetry toward freedom of form. "I thing I can answer that question best by telling you something I recently heard. 'Modern free verse the remark went, 'is no more a new form of poetry than sleeping in a ditch is a new form of architecture.' I think there is perhaps a great deal in that. In my own work I am inclined to adhere more to the conventional forms of meter and rhyme. I am proud to say that I am not one of those who thinks Tennyson beneath contempt...
Congress last week completed some three months of its session, a period marked by unusual legislative progress and a great deal of amity, all things considered. The tactics of the minority in the Senate who fought the World Court to the last ditch produced the only approach to a really good fight that this session of Congress has seen. There is something wrong about this situation. There should be trouble and plenty of it. This is an election year. In only a few weeks the primaries begin. In less than eight months a new Congress will be elected. And where...
Garbutt's attorney, who had fought the case to the last ditch, had "one last desperate hope" to save his client by an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court on a technicality. He had sent the particulars of his appeal by letter to a deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of the U. S., to E. Elmore Cropley...
ARICIE BRUN-Emile Henriot- Viking Press ($2). A prosperous Bordeaux mercer has the misfortune to upset his gig in a ditch. A young traveling man, Julien Brun, has the good fortune to pull him out. Thus, in 1817, begins a human little pageant of French bourgeoisie that continues for four generations, to the outbreak of war in 1914. For of course young Brun marries the mercer's daughter and lives, though not ever after or in unmitigated bliss, at least long enough to father some little Bruns, whom we follow to their several graves. Aricie is the unselfish daughter...