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...transformation from academician to Ambassador appears wrought with difficulties. The problem of changing from an idealist's to a practical realist's approach, while at the same time being forced to accept the White House foreign policy line, has torpedoed many good-willed scholars and kept them from becoming effective politicians...
...impact of the South's new Negro voters, 325,000 of whom have been registered in the five states principally affected by the civil rights movement. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, followed this year by the U.S. Supreme Court's abolition of state poll taxes, has already wrought subtle changes in the style and structure of Southern politics. The transformation is bound to quicken as more and more Negroes are enfranchised...
...responsible remarks people make about him--partly because there is still a communications gap between the literary East and the no-less moneyed, no-less-well educated, but far less established West (Berryman lives and teaches in Minneapolis), and partly because his witty, original, finely wrought and somehow insurrectionary poetry offers a marked challenge to the Way Poems are Being Written in this country...
...Black Sea, gobbled up half a continent and more than 100 million people. This week, 21 years and a new generation later, TIME takes its readers behind the no-longer-so-impenetrable Iron Curtain for a revealing appraisal in word and picture of what the years have wrought in the four major and strikingly diverse countries of the area: Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland...
...WHITE DEVIL. A revival in modern dress recaptures all the gory gothic elements of John Webster's 17th century melodrama of destruction wrought by ambition, greed, murder and revenge...