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Where does art end and morality begin? Or are they inseparable? That debate has gone on, to no satisfactory conclusion, since the days of the Greek theater. Lately it has focused most prominently on America's most prominent poet-in-exile, Ezra Pound. Now 86, Pound was indisputably a profound influence on 20th century poets, among them Yeats, Eliot and Frost. Yet he was also a thoroughgoing Fascist during the '30s and early '40s, pro-German and antiSemitic, a broadcaster of propaganda for Mussolini. At the end of World War II, he was arrested by the American...
...other members disagreed, and at least three have resigned from the society. M.I.T. Biologist Jerome Y. Lettvin complained bitterly: "You decided not to award him because you disap proved of the man but not his poetry. I will have no part of it." Pound wrote in Canto LXXXIII...
...eight-oared shell itself is colored 67 per cent Crimson. Brothers Mike '71 and Cleve '69 Livingston will row at bow and 2, Frits '69 and Bill '71 Hobbs are at 5 and 6, Terry, a 175-pound metronome will stroke, and Paul Hoffman '69, who enraged stolid U.S. Olympic officials with his support of the black athlete protest in 1968, will be coxswain. Two other Harvard oarsmen, lightweight stroke Tony Brooks and heavyweight captain Dave Sawyier, will go to Munich either as members of the four-with-cox or as spares...
...agreements governing international monetary exchange acquired their first patches and plugs last week, but they nonetheless held together. Following the shock of Britain's decision to set the pound afloat and thus allow traders to buy and sell sterling for any price that the market might bring, the Finance Ministers of London's prospective Common Market partners hustled into emergency session in Luxembourg. Struggling down disagreements, they made some decisions that calmed matters...
...though at week's end it recovered somewhat. In France, where distrust of currency is endemic, there was a flurry of investment in real estate and consumer goods. British tourists lost up to 10% of their buying power in foreign countries, nearly twice the official decline after the pound was floated. Because of the general uncertainty, Americans also had to accept discounts for their dollars in European restaurants, hotels and shops...