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...Housman once said that he had to blot poetry out of his mind while shaving because the thought of a fine line made his skin bristle and stopped his razor short. Housman put most of his own skin-prickling stanzas into A Shropshire Lad ("When I was one and twenty"), published in 1896 at his own expense when he was seven and thirty. This collection of unpublished poems will halt no razors. They are shavings of another sort, poetic chips and fragments from four notebooks Housman left behind at his death in 1936, which have already been combed for previous...
...share his council as well as his bed. On the long, fierce road to the golden halls of Montezuma, Cortés relies on her as his eyes, ears and translating tongue. Faithful Marina also bears Cortés a son. Yet Novelist Baron never allows her to blot out the challenging figure of the great conquistador. His Cortés is a hypnotic leader who can inspire lukewarm, greedy fighters to swashbuckle down to their job. Exploring the inner man as well, Author Baron describes Cortés as a Byron turning Napoleonic, as a would-be servant...
There are other bright notes. P. H. C. Williams' "Yale Weekend 1954" is cleverly whimsical, and the Blot-Jester dialogue jabs gently at the Yale Record in the usual lucid style of the department. Best of all in the issue is a smooth study of an intemporate Uncle Charlie. The author, RDH, is otherwise unidentified in the issue, however, which would suggest that the article has been reprinted from a past issue...
Said Mathematician John von Neumann of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, who last week was appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) : "Very many people who have some trivial blot way back in their past do not know whether they can take a chance on getting into sensitive work ... To have once been dropped for security reasons is for the average person ... a professional catastrophe...
...lands where the hammer and sickle seek to blot out the cross, a pitiless struggle goes on to render unto the Red Caesars the things that are God's. Last week the spiritual combat zone was East Germany, where Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen joined in protesting a Soviet-style "family law." Due for enactment by the East zone legislature, the law mirrors the macabre woman who fashioned it, Hilde Benjamin, 52, known as "Red Hilde," "Hanging Hilde," and "the Red Guillotine...