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Winters' comparisons of Robinson with other poets are crisp, e.g., "[Thomas] Hardy describes the natural landscape in detail and implies the human tragedy. Robinson analyzes the tragedy and implies the landscape. . . ." The chief fault of this book is that poems are cited, not quoted, and the reader has to have Robinson's Collected Poems beside him to follow the criticism. But that may not be a bad idea...
With such provisions Alberta's Supreme Court found no inherent fault, although Justice Harvey found some parts of the bill incomprehensible. But Premier Manning and his Social Creditors came a. legal cropper on their means of financing the benefits. They proposed to set up a five-man Board of Credit Commissioners to estimate the value of all the "assets" of the province (mountains, rivers, forests, etc.), developed or undeveloped. All this blue-sky calculation would add up, Premier Manning and friends reckoned, to the grand sum of $231 billion. To this figure they proposed to add the "capitalized productive...
...serve sizzled over the net. Aggressive as ever, California's Kramer scrambled in behind his serve and put away shots with overhand smashes and light teasers. He still had one fault to work on: his forehand drives were floating instead of zipping. But he-beat Teammate Frank Parker in two quick sets and said, "Boy, it feels good to be hitting them again." If he kept on hitting them, he could spoil a big Christmas Week for confident, sport-crazy Australia...
...worried about weather, crops, and his son Cain, who is a wild spirit. Eve comforts him: "God has been kinder to us than we deserved.' "' Than we deserved ! It was your - "'Yes, I know. ... You remind me of it often enough. It's my fault that we're here now instead of in the Garden of Eden. But... we have each other, Adam.' " 'Yes, that's true. But I wish you wouldn't talk so much when I come home tired.' " 'You used to like to hear me talk...
Faced with an involved and drastically over-long play, the new dramatic group cut it to workable length, cast it faithfully, and struggled manfully to wring all the laughs possible from William Gerhardi's first attempt at playwriting. The essential fault that Kilty and Company failed to recognize, however, was their original choice of vehicle--an impossibly dramatic, wordy, technically cumbersome work...