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...order of our lives and may involve our very lives; and these events are occurring persistently with increasing omen, in what may be called our presence." In this situation, what is the poet's role? To cherish imagination not as escape from reality but as "the necessary angel" by whose shaping grace man's need to make sense of reality is fulfilled. Nobility must be expressed, wrote Wallace Stevens, because of a violence from within "that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality...
...German occupation authorities ordered the arrest of all non-Aryan Catholics in Holland, and Sister Benedicta and Rosa were herded into a van and taken to a concentration camp. Amidst the suffering and despair at the camp, "Sister Benedicta walked about among the women, comforting, helping, soothing like an angel," an escaped Jewish businessman wrote later...
...Overboard. To pave the way. Perón last week employed a familiar technique: lightening ship by throwing overboard once useful cronies.* Out went the two front men of his anti-church campaign: Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi (who departed in haste to Uruguay) and Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin. To replace them he swore in ("by God, the Fatherland and the Holy Gospels") a pair of party hacks: Oscar Edmundo Albrieu, 40, as Interior Minister, and Francisco Marcos Anglada, 38, as Education Minister. Both were moderate enough to represent a concession to the church...
...some degree boxed in the No. 1 general, that the revolt had cost Perón some of his power. But if the Cabinet included Perón's chosen cronies-Minister of Education Mendez San Martin, a spark plug of the anti-church campaign; Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi, the old Cabinet's boss policeman; and Minister of Technical Affairs Raul Mende, top political hatchetman-then Perón would be announcing to the world that he was firmly and defiantly back in full control...
...Great art has to be youthful . . . I am still a boy," he explains. One of Milles' latest undertakings is a large memorial group for Kansas City's Nelson Gallery. Recently, an inspection committee from the museum showed up to see the nearly finished work. "Why are there angels?" one asked. Replied Milles: "Don't you think God sends his people down to see what we are doing?" One angel was scratching its leg "because." said Milles. "there are so many mosquitoes down here." The committee, Milles reported, was thoroughly satisfied with his explanations...