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Increasingly in the 1930s, the Cantos reflected the poet's fondness for Mussolini's Fascism, his zany theories about usury and money (a modification of the labor theory of value) and finally, vicious anti-Semitic doggerel. War came. By 1941 Pound was making paid propaganda speeches in English from Rome. After the war, back in the U.S., he was charged with treason, and, starting at age 60, spent twelve years as a patient and prisoner in a mental hospital in Washington-a long punishment, whatever his offenses. His defenders claim that Pound was not mentally responsible for much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry: The Lost Leader | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

CINEMA II Monday-Tuesday Easy Rider, Vicious Cycles 4:15, 6, 8, 10, Wednesday-following Tuesday The Conformist plus Bill Cosby on Prejudice 4:15, 7:15, 9:45. Midnight Friday-Saturday In Cold Blood plus Captain Video part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 11/9/1972 | See Source »

...Cuban missile crisis by taking time out to pet his daughter Caroline's Welsh terrier Charlie. Dog-lovingest President: Lyndon B. Johnson, who allowed one of his dogs to sleep in his bed and adored a white collie named Blanco, despite the fact that he was so vicious he had to be kept tranquilized. L.B.J. was so distraught over the death of Old Beagle that he had him cremated, then kept the ashes in a box on top of the refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 6, 1972 | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...There was some vicious Red-baiting about the demonstrations," Powers said. "We did play a significant role in getting coalitions together, but obviously we didn't control anyone...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Socialist Fish in a Capitalist Sea | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

...people is the nature of his rhetoric. McGovern's attacks on the Nixon Administration are so brutal and strident that it is difficult for anyone who is uncommitted to hear him and come away feeling that McGovern has reasoned positions. Rather people come away from rallies amazed at how vicious McGovern has been in his attacks on the President...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Stumping the Airwaves With Candidate McGovern | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

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