Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When the results of this exhaustive reporting were finally piled on Writer McPhee's desk last week, he faced his own formidable composing task: a 61-hour, mostly sleepless writing stint. For McPhee-unlike his subjects- there could be no trial runs in Toronto or Boston. He was opening in New York, and Senior Editor Grunwald was a tough critic...
...government last week, Harold Macmillan saw no reason to deviate from custom. Into office as Secretary of State for Air went Julian Amery, Macmillan's son-in-law; the eleventh Duke of Devonshire, his wife's nephew, became Parliamentary Undersecretary for Commonwealth Relations. For the honorific task of moving the reply to the Queen's speech from the throne, Macmillan chose his son Maurice from the rank of Tory backbenchers...
Cuban anti-Communists dedicated to the overthrow of Fidel Castro face a task that, militarily, grows tougher by the day. Last week a newly escaped Cuban army officer put it bluntly: "There must be a modern force of at least 6,000 men, well-trained in combined operations on land, sea and air, or else it will be thrown back into the sea." Starting in Castro's first week in power, 21 months of frantic arms buying has funneled enough military hardware into Cuba to equip no fewer than nine light divisions of 7,500 men each, give Cuba...
...task of those in the funeral profession," according to a manual for undertakers titled Psychology of Funeral Service, "to educate the public in the right paths." In the dozen years since Novelist Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One, his famed satire on "the funeral profession," the public has been so thoroughly educated that today the undertakers' take-over from clergymen seems almost complete- and more profitable than ever. So reports the Roman Catholic magazine Jubilee in an article showing that anywhere in the U.S., a family can dispose of its dead in an atmosphere of cheery and costly flimflam...
...reveal the man behind the masks and to place the poet among his peers is an urgent task, but Critic Charles Norman (The Magic-Maker: e. e. cummings) has not done it. His book is a triumph of industry and a signal display of disorganization, a patchwork-letters, reminiscences, vignettes-of incoherent research. Apart from a few candid shots of its subject, the book is significant only because it treats Pound seriously and heralds the work that will treat him definitively. It is a reminder that he cannot be written off and must, more and more, be written about. Pound...