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Like Cole Porter, he could dip into a source play, borrow a line and spin a lyric. In Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, the heroine wonders aloud what it would be like "if I loved you," then pauses to reflect silently. Adapting the play as Carousel, Hammerstein and Rodgers filled the pause with unadorned grace: If I loved...
...power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot and to promote respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion consistently and faithfully, and to so conduct myself in public affairs and in the exercise of public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit upon our Holy Church, to the end that she may flourish and our country prosper to the greater honor and glory...
...been accompanied by regular wage hikes (see chart). Such unions as Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and James B. Carey's International Union of Electrical Workers now argue that earnings should rise at the same rate as productivity. But productivity jumps, insists management, not only reflect increased output per worker but increased capital investment and automation. Productivity also has an effect on prices and inflation. An increase in output per man-hour not only makes more goods available; it makes possible either lower prices or higher profits-or some of both...
Starbuck's first book, Bone Thoughts, was published earlier this year and is the current volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poetry has been characterized by Dudley Fitts as "an intense and shaking kind of poetry, an art whose dissonances and wry dartings reflect a man awake in the nightmare of our day." His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Audience, Paris Review, Saturday Review, and other periodicals...
...should shock few. There is hardly a Christian sect that doesn't practice it, consciously or unconsciously. What is sickening about religious segregation is the effect of such pre-Reformation mouthings as De Blanc's on the immature and uneducated. It would be well to reflect on the historical fact that the Catholic Church, as well as all the other Christian churches, is but a segment of the Jewish faith...