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...outrageous Child who stole the axe of power...
Other books of verse by older writers: Robinson Jeffers' crabbed The Double Axe, which most critics resented for its arrogant, unyielding isolationism; Paterson, Book II, a homey description of small-city life by William Carlos Williams, a New Jersey doctor who versifies between paying patients; Mark Van Doren's pleasant New Poems...
...same time. This would mean drastic budget outs. A large majority of the budget now provides for national defense, foreign aid, and veterans' benefits. Since a combination of these items will continue to take up an immense proportion of the budget, Mr. Dewey would have to apply the axe to other federal operations. In this "economizing," he undoubtedy would be under great pressure from the Old Guard of the Republican Party such men as Representatives Hallock, Taber, and Martin. Just as housing and education have suffered in New York, in the nation the result would be the undermining, and possibly...
...DOUBLE AXE (149 pp.)-Robinson Jeffers-Random House...
...Greek Theater. He invites V.I.P.s in education, sport, politics and military affairs to headline the bill (top drawing cards: Philosopher John Dewey, the late football coach Knute Rockne). Introducing a student leader who had just been disciplined for raiding the Stanford campus to steal the traditional "Axe" before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view of their conduct makes a hit with Cal students, even more than Sproul's occasional all-out efforts...