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...kind of studied coyness and poeticism occasionally flaws a prose that is otherwise like a sheet of plate glass. But the two longest pieces (the title story and one called The Child Is the Meaning...
...Part I of the longest poem in Jeffers' new book, a boy killed on a Pacific beachhead furiously reassumes his corpse ("I poured my soul with sickening pain into my body again") and returns to a California ranch, there to terrify his patriotic father and adulterous mother, taunting them with blasphemies, cursing the war they sent him to, trying to make horrible love to her, and eventually killing his father and his mother's lover. The force of this poem comes from the suggestion that a soldier foully killed in the insane violence of modern combat would retain...
...raining, when the President's party reached Convention Hall. Inside the auditorium, bands, whistles, horns and sirens were rousing the delegates into the Truman demonstration, set off by Governor Phil Donnelly's nominating speech. The demonstration lasted 39 minutes, thus surpassing by seven minutes the longest dinning for any Republican candidate three weeks before...
...event that might linger longest in the minds of the delegates, spectators, and television watchers of the Democratic Convention was neither Harry Truman's fighting speech nor the Southern schism. It was the pigeons...
...this season (Southworth's third in Boston) the Braves' longest losing streak has been four games. "When we lose," says Southworth, "we never talk baseball. I don't reprimand the boys for their mistakes after a game. I let a man sleep on it and talk to him next day. He doesn't resent it that way. There's no browbeating on my team. Actually, I haven't any reason to think that there's a fellow on the Braves who dislikes...