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...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...
...Lurch that Failed. On the plane manifest he was listed as Lucio Lee, but his real name was Ang Tiv-chok; he had left Amoy, in South China, in 1947, and now was wanted by the Philippines for attempted murder...
...just taken off when Ang quietly slipped into the pilots' cabin. The two pilots, thinking that a passenger had come in for a view of the cockpit, glanced behind them-and looked straight into the barrel of Ang's .45 Colt. Ang thrust a typewritten note at them: "Do not be alarmed. I am a desperate man. This is a stickup. Do not talk to each other." He ordered them to set a course for Amoy, some 500 miles away. Pilot Captain Pedro Perlas protested that the plane did not have enough fuel. Suddenly he threw the wheel...
...overalls, doing the chores, the esthetic rebel of the '20s looks a inch the Yankee individualist he is. Once he fired a .38 over the heads of trespassers, who quickly vanished at the b (anG...
There, on a hot summer day, two naturalists were trying to photograph a flock of greylag geese, but some inquisitive little mallards kept getting in the way. The photographer was doing his best to call them off. "Rangangangang, rangangang-ang!" he screeched, to no effect. Then he realized his mistake. "Sorry," he said. "I mean-quahg, gegegegeg, quahg, gegege-geg!" In his irritation, he had been addressing the mallards in greylag language...