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Undergraduate poetry is a touchy subject, and Robert Johnston's two poems are therefore better left to speak for themselves. Arthur Freeman's work is easier to discuss, for it is much better. His humorous poems are truly funny rather than merely ingenious, the kind of humor at which we laugh without thinking first. His more serious offering, "Storm in Equinox," is one of the best things to come out of South Street of late. Gabrielle Ladd, a Wellesley senior, is the third poet, although her relationship to the Advocate is elusive...
...poet such activity may be inevitable, and for Robert Johnston it is not completely fatal. The major function remaining to contemporary poets after the depredations of fiction, history, and science, seems to be the destruction of cliches. The struggles with words which characterize Johnston's newest poem may well be a significant poetic achievement...
...most irresponsible pieces of serious legislation reported by a committee to the Senate since I have been a member," said Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr. Not so, retorted South Carolina's Democratic Senator Olin Johnston: It is a landmark defense against a Supreme Court which has made a "shambles of established, ingrained...
Both Hennings and Johnston were talking about a bill originally authored by Indiana's Republican Senator William Jenner, rewritten almost completely by Maryland's Republican Senator John Marshall Butler, and approved last week-without hearings-by a 10-to-5 vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Aimed at providing legislative remedy for recent Supreme Court decisions in the field of national security, the Jenner-Butler bill is certain to be hotly disputed. Its main points...
Director Jan Hartman might, to good effect, have sat down hard on most of the members of his supporting cast: When the principals are off-stage, Robert Johnston's blessed quietude is the eye in a hurricane of overacting. Otherwise, Mr. Hartman has done a good job: his occasional attempts at comic business are almost uniformly successful. JULIUS NOVICK