Word: agelong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agelong struggle against the sea there has been more than one death-filled night to remember, and Walter Lord's bestselling Titanic saga (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956) was bound to become the leader of a literary ghost-ship column. Authors Caulfield and Moscow are newsmen, and neither is as slick a writer as former Adman Lord. But they have raised their ships from the depths of forgetfulness and cast light into dark spaces...
...poems are by turns idyllic, ironic and bitter. "Planners" Raw Deal and Decade of T'ang, which tell of a people's agelong suffering under tyranny, are particularly gripping against the background of present-day China. Although Pound, now 68, was charged with wartime sedition in 1945 and confined to Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital as "mentally incompetent.'' he proves once again that he is one of the finest U.S. poets alive...
...names of world trouble spots: Korea, Indo-China, sick France and dissension-torn Italy, Asia, Africa and Latin America, with its spreading infection of Communism. "In very truth," said Flanders, "the world seems to be mobilizing for the great battle of Armageddon. Now is a crisis in the agelong warfare between God and the Devil for the souls of men. In this battle of the agelong war, what is the part played by the junior Senator from Wisconsin? He dons his war paint. He goes into his war dance. He emits his war whoops. He goes forth to battle...
...French-German agreements: I wish to present an amazingly simple solution to end the agelong rivalry and bloodshed between these two nations...