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...Ezra Pound, Canto...
...Government counts on rising interest rates to cool an inflationary economy, they are bothersome anachronisms-or would be, if they were effective. In fact, most are so riddled with exceptions that they apply mostly to mortgage loans. In that field, though, they are causing enough trouble to indicate that Pound's line would be more accurate if it read: "Without usura hath no man a house...
This is the official line of Harvard, or as close as there comes to being an official line. I began to unlearn it immediately, naturally, and I recently decided that many of Harvard's better features are suggested in some lines of Ezra Pound about a tradition that there can be honesty of mind without overwhelming talent. My first encounter with Science at Harvard, for example, came during my first and pretty nearly my last bridge game there. It came a few weeks after the assistant dean's explanation, which it seemed to call into question, if not to contradict...
...Sound and the Fury. The cat was so affected that he never molested the lady's bathtub, but on his first day in his new home, he began to claw the furniture. Thereafter he was well-behaved. Even though he had almost certainly never read any Ezra Pound, apparently, he had become so imbued with the Harvard atmosphere that he didn't want to be taken in on false pretenses of perfection. He was credit to his race and a good...
...gross national product has grown not at all for two years, while the population continues to increase by about 15 million every year. So the standard of living for the multitude has actually declined. In a glaringly pennywise, pound-foolish move, the government decided several months ago to cut back on its family planning, birth control and sterilization programs. Though land-reform laws have been passed, they have been carried out spottily...