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...unusual best has written some brilliant poetry. "Lovers as Nihilists" is not in that category. The poem begins by scorning the artificiality "the contrived symbol the sly image the trick of metaphor" of the artist who reduces "passion to a poet's syllable." It ends by culogizing the blunt emotions of love and hate--"the hate that shows us naked . . . the love that cleaves us open-eyed, unmasked, unversed, alive. Voiceless poets released from artifice, whose statement sings in this most sensual peace." One hates to accuse Mr. Abrahams of hypocrisy; but when he lauds the poet "released from artifice...
...Courage. Living martyr and symbol of Christian resistance in Germany both to Germans and the whole world is Pastor Niemoller. A gaunt, blunt, unbending hero of World War I, who won the Iron Cross for his exploits as a submarine commander (he sank 55,000 tons of Allied shipping), he was pastor of the swank Jesus Christus Kirche in Berlin's socialite suburb Dahlem and led the Confessional Synod's attack on Naziism until clapped into jail in July 1937 for "misuse of the pulpit." The court freed him when he came to trial in February...
...years the U. S. Army officer's blunt-edged dress sabre has been a symbol of authority and tradition - and nothing more. Hung on only for formal parades and inspections, it has been an out-of-date nuisance, especially anomalous in Air Corps and mechanized outfits. Last week, having ruled out boots and spurs for motorized soldiers, the Army decided to throw out the sabre too. Also on the way out, the War Department announced, is the shiny Sam Browne belt, essentially designed to let an officer lug a sabre around without disarranging his waist belt. From...
...original members' (Dallas' Tank Sausage Local No. 1) campaign: blunt points on bayonets, better enforcement of antinoise and assault ordinances on the battlefield, rear-view mirrors and road flares for tank equipment, creation of king's-X areas on battlefields for tired soldiers. Title assumed by Bergman and friends: Founding Fodders...
...finishing school, Rosemary (fee: $1,600 a year) is patronized by well-to-do girls of the hardier sort, most of whom go on to Bryn Mawr or Vassar. Among its 1,900 alumnae are Mrs. Charles Seymour, Mrs. Robert A. Taft, Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, President Katherine Blunt of Connecticut College...