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...Khrushchev said tut-tut to all that, and Rozhdestvensky rather readily switched his blank-verse sermonizing from anti-Stalinism to anti-Americanism. Imagining himself a U.S. Indian in wild West days, he asked...
...approach. He cuts off a good-humored parody of free verse with a perfectly serious joke: "But I desist for want of knowing where to cut my lines unhokuspokusly." He wrote to John Cournos, an unsuccessful novelist: "There are the very regular, pre-established accent and measure of blank verse; and there are the very irregular accent and measure of speaking intonation. I am never more pleased than when I can get these two into strained relation. I like to drag and break the intonation across the metre as waves first comb and then break stumbling on the shingle. That...
...Harvard has to do tonight is score a goal to break the old club record of 103 straight games without being shut out. The last team to blank the Crimson was Providence in 1960, and Harvard has kept the Friars off its schedule ever since...
Rifles and Sten guns rattling, they fired point-blank into the seated hostages. The gunners picked women and children as their first targets. Many whites flopped onto the pavement, pretending to be dead. Others did not have to pretend. One Belgian child was cut in half by a Sten-gun burst. Parents who flung themselves over their children were stitched by the wild bullets that sprayed the crowd. A woman sat openmouthed as gunfire chopped down the people on either side of her. She somehow came through unhurt...
During the campaign the President handed out blank checks to dozens of disparate groups, and cashing them will require a miracle of political statesmanship. Johnson promised a Government "both thrifty and progressive"; it will have to be both if he is to balance his budget and still put across wide-ranging medicare, education and anti- poverty programs. Big steel is pressing for higher prices; Lyndon's resistance could turn some businessmen against him. Ford's 130,000 United Auto Workers Union members threatened to strike by week's end; Johnson's newly won prestige will...