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With this in mind, let us hope that Congress rejects Mr. Nixon's "pound of cure" for the much more economical and reasonable "ounce of prevention...
Waiting for her there is her husband Barry, who has been holding their 30-pound son Danny for the 40-odd minutes it has taken Court to beat Kerry Harris 6-2, 6-2 in the second round of the tournament...
...mark of a great wave of art at its ebb. Continual, radical change has become a constant for all the arts, but the leading figures of what now appears as the classical period of modernism are gone: two years ago Stravinsky; after the bitter silence of his last years, Pound; and now Picasso. Not for a long time, and perhaps never again, will any single artist create a revolution as fundamental as Picasso...
David Perkins's short memorial essay on Ezra Pound as the instructor of a great generation of writers now dead is an appreciation and not (though it could be) an invidious comparison between Pound's time and ours; but there is a point to his repeating Pound's advice: to remember the old virtues of economy, force and precision; not to be afraid to make readers think; to remember that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. And Marc Leib's review of a posthumous collection of Sylvia Plath's play and poems has some points...
...reap a reasonable profit. In the normal chain of events for beef, for example, the farmer sells his calf to a feedlot operator, who is one of the middlemen. He in turn fattens the animal and often sells it to a meatpacker for a few cents less per pound than he bought it. The feedlot operator hopes to profit by adding considerable weight to the animal in a relatively short time, but his problem lately has been that feed costs have risen sharply. The packer who slaughters the calf adds a markup, but his margins have been pared by increasing...