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...little hunchback who became the greatest satirical poet of his century (the 18th), usually had the last word, and usually it lasted. Vain and touchy, a brilliant, malicious destroyer of reputations, he was a critical menace to the dull and mediocre in life and literature. Also one of the ablest craftsmen of verse who ever lived, he packed more in a couplet than others could in a stanza. Unlike many modern poets, he wrote both lucidly and sharply; he intended to be understood by every intelligent reader. He died of dropsy at 56. These characteristic lines (reprinted from the Selected...
George Venable Allen, 44, one of the ablest of U.S. career diplomats, took on his toughest assignment last week. Fresh from a two-year stint as Ambassador to Iran, he was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs-i.e., chief of U.S. propaganda...
...audiences. Today almost all the expelled musicians are back, and Mengelberg, now 77, is retired in Switzerland. The man who has reconstructed the Concertgebouw is black-haired, 47-year-old Eduard van Beinum, who, after learning under Mengelberg for 17 years, is fast becoming one of Europe's ablest conductors...
...Eyes Are Still Raised." He joined the Executive Committee of the United Irishmen when their ablest leaders were in prison or exile. Like the American revolutionaries, Emmet and his fellows pinned bright hopes on French military assistance. The British government, fully alert to this threat, had spies planted even in the top drawers of the French War Department...
Against this latest encroachment the Conservative Lords were arrayed in depth. Up rose another Cecil-slim Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of Salisbury, one of England's ablest peers.* The history and traditions of twelve Salisbury generations were behind him. The first earl had been a trusted minister of Queen Elizabeth. The third marquess had been one of Victoria's prime ministers. Now long-nosed "Bobbety" Cecil was demanding that the Labor government withdraw its bill...