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...good times, feed-lot operators buy 500-lb. to 700-lb. calves from ranchers, gorge them on a special, high-protein diet until the cattle reach the optimum slaughter weight of 1,100 lbs., then resell them to packers for about the same price per pound that they paid. They corral a profit if the expense of putting the added weight on the animals is less than the price that the added poundage brings...
...Paper Waste is the Law School Drama Society's "new musical comedy about a faded Hollywood studio's efforts to film the 'ultimate' expose of life at law school." Any resemblance to real studios living or dead is presumably coincidental. This weekend and next, 8 p.m. in the Pound Building at the Law School...
...entire book is plagued by a frustrating discrepancy between minute detail and lack of any detail at all. While Matthews describes at length the life of Eliot's friend (and possibly fiancee) Emily Hale with a series of frequently fatuous anecdotes, we learn almost nothing about the influence of Pound upon Eliot's work. Any reasons for this are unclear, since the author was refused access to any really significant information on Emily Hale (the Emily Hale papers) while he was free to study all the Pound documents. It's just too speculative--so many questions are left unanswered that...
...Matthews, former managing editor of Time, has explored the few available sources of information on T.S. Eliot, including Professor John H. Finely '25 and the extensive Eliot-Pound correspondence. Matthews examines certain major themes in Eliot's life: his overly strict, God-fearing, asexual upbringing, a disastrous first marriage which drove him for years into a devastating personal waste land, the gnawing sense of guilt which pervades his post-1922 poetry and plays, his conversion from Unitarianism to Anglo-Catholicism, and the emotional rejuvenation of his second marriage...
...Eliot was born in blood, sweat and tears; unlike most of us, he was born in St. Louis." Where the author is at the mercy of incomplete material he resorts to catchy phrases at the expense of coherence, and metaphors for the sake of metaphors. (On the subject of Pound, he gushes: "His critical tone is quite unself-conscious, at times even incautiously blurty; this tone buoys him up and carries him along swimmingly--until, late in his career, he founders in the shallow rapids of his baby talk.") As the book progresses, the style improves in direct proportion...