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...going to study your way into a love of poetry," Robert Frost told the enthralled multitudes at Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. Not formal training but education "by hook and by crook" is necessary to become a good night reader--a reader who can fall in love at first sight...
...done the most to change the world-for good or evil-during 1960. TIME'S men of the past four years have thus ranged from the Hungarian Freedom Fighter (1956) to Nikita Khrushchev (1957), Charles de Gaulle (1958) and Dwight Eisenhower (1959). It is an old TIME reader's custom to match wits with the editors around this time of year. Readers who would like to enter this year's sweepstakes are invited to think back over the year's newsmakers and make their own choice for Man of the Year. Those whose candidate turns...
...Metamorphosis of the Gods, by Andre Malraux. To Malraux, art is religion, and to support this view, he produces flights of brilliant speculation that course throughout all of art history; if he does not persuade the reader to worship, at least he helps...
...Porter reader is invitingly and inevitably addressed as "you." This means everybody: "Just consider these facts and you'll grasp the deep personal meaning of this to you-whoever you are, wherever you are." If the "you" is fissionable, Sylvia splits it: "you, the small business man" and "you, the consumer," to quote two salutations joined in one recent Porter column. "You" also is highly possessive: it is "your recession," "your cost of living," "your pocketbook," and, of course, "your dollar...
...around the house this minute, would you?" she once asked in her column. "As a typical American family, that's the astounding total you're now supposed to be holding in CASH. The statistics are indisputable, unassailable." After this arresting lead, guaranteed to nail the typical American reader, she led a quick tour of a difficult subject: a report on the national currency hoard...