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...London Observer Correspondent Philip Deane photographed a Burmese soldier demonstrating a mine detector at Mandalay airport, just before the arrival of Khrushchev and Bulganin. A 6-ft. MVD plainclothesman rushed the Burmese soldier to try to stop the picture. The incident, recorded on TV film, made Serov blaze with anger. "Who took that lying photograph?" he demanded later. When other Western newsmen refused to tell him, he got madder. "In Russia," he said, "a man who took that picture would be beaten up." When finally a trembling Soviet newsman identified Deane, he cried: "Are you the man who stage-managed...
Poet Donald Hall, 27, has not yet unseated the great oldsters, but with his very first book, he has made a solid seat for himself. Exiles and Marriages has neither the poetic blaze of Dylan Thomas nor the suppressed smolder of Robert Frost, but it has its own true tone composed in almost equal parts of intelligence and imagination. Like most good poets, Hall knows that. Life is hell, but death is worse. And it is possible that even in an age of anxiety he puts on the hair shirt of guilt more often than is strictly necessary ("I wear...
Because of the zorch, a general blaze...
Because of the blaze, the water plays...
...December issue of The Atlantic Menzel described the history of the universe as "indefinite expansion, the flashing of fireworks, a glorious blaze, followed by oblivion...