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Helms made his debut last week by working on Agnew's speech for a Republican dinner in Cleveland, which grossed more than $325,000. Since the New Orleans opus in October, an aide reports, the Vice President has become "a very hot item." Just in the past five months, he has been the guest of honor at galas that have earned some $3,000,000 for the G.O.P...
...freshman, I barely squeaked into Theodore Morrison's English Fa, in spite of, rather than because of, my opus. From Professor Morrison I learned about structure and diction, how to rhyme, how to write blank verse, what fourteeners are: the real stuff of verse composition. I learned how to confine myself to form, how to think thoughts of ten beats. I could scan anything, I learned by examples what poetry really was: the structured, symbolic expression of certain ideals, especially the Good and the Beautiful...
English Novelist Lawrence Durrell, traveling in the U.S. to promote his latest opus, Nunquam, announced a discovery. "What I thought was a slight earthquake going through the whole place that made me thirsty all the time," Durrell reported, "is actually your gin. It's 90 proof. Ours in London...
...direction provides wit and a pictorial opulence that belie the film's lean budget. But Women in Love oscillates too frequently from the shrill to the booming, from woman to man, from instinct to rationale, without once adapting a coherent point of view. In time, the narcissistic opus becomes like its author, who ultimately lived down to Katherine Anne Porter's summation. He gives, she said, "the nightmarish impression of the bisexual snail squeezed into its narrow house making love to itself...
Falangists greeted the appointments angrily. Shouting "Falange, si. Opus Dei, no!", they demonstrated through Madrid's streets last week. Other Spaniards pointed out that the appointments by no means indicate a shift to a less dictatorial Spain. Said one Madrileňo, who belongs to the order himself: "This means an economic opening up to Europe, but it does not necessarily mean liberalism at home. There is not one man on the list you could call even moderately left...