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...Congratulations to the artist who did the cover portrait of Bishop Pike [Nov. 11]. It is a veritable picture of the modern Everyman, torn by the anguish of contradictions of his own making. Pike as your artist indicates represents not an individual...
...integrity and insight with which he tackles his job. Brown is awed by few people, not even by the royal family. When he encountered Princess Margaret at a recent party greeting other ladies with regal little kisses, he asked if he could have one too. Replied Meg, torn between irritation and amusement: "Shut up!" Just about everyone in Britain knows that George Brown, whatever his virtues or faults, is totally incapable of doing that...
...still get years of use. They are amazed at the serviceable suits that an American sends off to the Salvation Army the minute an elbow gives way or a knee frays. Tin cans that would roof a million Caribbean cottages are tossed onto scrap heaps. Perfectly good buildings are torn down and replaced by new ones with an economic life expectancy of only 50 years. Waste, outrageous waste, cry the critics-and by no means only foreign critics. U.S. social commentators loudly deplore the "waste makers," as do politicians and poets. "In America everything goes to waste," complains Poet Karl...
...Torn with self-doubts, self-hatred and continual impulses to suicide, Frost set himself adrift before he was 20. He fled Dartmouth before the end of his first semester, spent three years moving from job to job, finding only in poetry "the momentary stay of confusion." He tormented Elinor White, his shy high school sweetheart, with accusations of disloyalty because she wanted to finish college. Eventually she married him, but by that time, as he liked to say, he had "bent her to his will." He put in two years at Harvard, paid for by his grandfather, who then bought...
...seems now that sophomore quarterback Brian Dowling may be out for almost the whole season with torn knee ligaments. Pete Doherty has been filling in for him well -- well enough to set an Ivy passing mark of five touchdowns in a game, and did it all in the first half...