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Litanies of Response. As an orator, Mussolini was incomparable (until Hitler began his blacker magic). He developed an incantatory style capable of evoking litanies of response from his audience...
...DOROTHY BLACKER Detroit...
...crowd clapped and yelled. Grissom looked out through his four-pane "picture window"-a new feature of the capsule-but was at first too dazzled to see much. "Boy," he reported, "that sun is really bright." Later he saw the clouded coastline far below, watched the sky grow blacker-and became so fascinated with the view that he could hardly drag himself back to his duties...
Poet Pasternak stressed imagery because he believed that "only the image can keep pace with the successes of nature." A frosty night is "like a blind puppy lapping its milk." The Caucasus is like "crumpled bedding." The dark night of the soul is "blacker than monks, more stifling than clergy." The evening is empty "like an interrupted story." What Pasternak has tried to do in his poetry is not to recollect emotion in tranquillity, but to arrest emotion like a motion picture stopped with all the characters in mid-action...
...Pennsylvania picture, by contrast, could hardly be blacker. The Quakers were figured to be a top Ivy team this year, and yet they have managed to win only one out of five games to date. Last week they took a terriffic shellacking from nationally-ranked Navy--something not exactly calculated to raise team morale...