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...that writing poetry takes too much out of him, and so it might. In a time when most poets settle for expert technique as an envelope for cliches of feeling, his technical expertness serves simply as a firm mold for flashing pools of moving truth. While reams of well-wrought verse make do with themes that could as easily serve historians, sociologists, geologists or psychoanalysts, he seldom tackles anything less easy than a challenge to poetic insight. Like all poets he has his quota of failures, but even there his sense of language, when it cannot save his intentions, still...
...Life for the National Council of Churches: "Contraception can bring many beneficial emotional and spiritual effects when morally used. Protestant clergymen at home and abroad have seen not only the debilitating physical and socio-economic effects of haphazard childbearing, but have also been deeply concerned with the spiritual devastation wrought by fear of bearing children unable to be provided for." ¶ Dr. Alan Guttmacher, director of obstetrics and gynecology at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital and a leader in the Planned Parenthood Association: "Contraception promotes health rather than illness. A good contraceptive device-the right one found...
...pidgin poetry of the conventional translator. What he has set out to do, says the author, is tell of "a yellow Sunday in the last days of a good spring, while . . . pale threads, drawn out from dark hidden places, began to be wound inexorably together . . . until there had been wrought, out of such tenuous white and fleeting things, a taut tripwire for the souls of men, destined, before its mindless work was done, to bring many tall sure riders down to earth, and below.'' Burdened with such prose, the skeleton of a good shoot-em-up also comes...
...within two days Macmillan's carefully wrought compromise shattered on the intransigent arrogance of Eric Louw. Calling a press conference (for white reporters only), Louw aggressively announced, "I have come to London neither as an accused nor as a penitent nor as a suppliant." and added that his government saw "no reason for any basic change" in its racial policies. That afternoon, when Louw took the same line at his promised informal meeting with the Prime Ministers, Malaya's normally genial Tengku Abdul Rahman walked out in a rage, called his own press conference to announce: "I shall...
...General Tire & Rubber Co. is probably the fastest-growing, most diversified company in the rubber industry. Last year General Tire and its 46 subsidiaries and affiliates grossed more than $730 million (net: $26 million), turned out such diverse products as tires, rocket engines, tennis balls, plastics, steel, wrought iron, movies and girdles. The reason for so many far-flung enterprises, explains O'Neil blithely, is that "I wanted enough diversification so that my sons wouldn't have to scrap with each other." Last week Board Chairman O'Neil shuffled General Tire's management, laid...