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Ready to Fight. Nowhere is this new every-man-on-his-own attitude clearer than in Congress, where all House members and 21 Republican Senators are up for re-election and intend to make records they can run on. To Midwestern Congressmen Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson is anathema, and they will fight his election-year proposal to cut farm subsidies (TIME. Jan. 27); even so loyal an Administration supporter as Vermont's venerable George Aiken has publicly turned on Benson and his works. More worried about such a simple political issue as rising unemployment than anything else, many...
...almost as outstanding an artist. And his pictures, like his poems, partake of music. Blake's figures are all dancing in compositions as supple and clear as Mozart. If they do not seem particularly real, it is because Blake saw through the real world into a clearer place. "Imagination is my world," he said, adding that "he who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine...
...English monk around 1375, have made it "alive again with meaning and usefulness" for modern man. To enlarge the book's modern audience, Progoff has "translated" it from vivid, lilting 14th century English-which has made it a favorite treasure-trove of poets, including T. S. Eliot-into clearer, plainer language.* Progoff has also translated many of the book's spiritual precepts into psychological terms...
Presenting its annual resumé, the Department of Agriculture last week had some startling figures that might put all the worryabout fluctuating farm prices and immediate income in clearer perspective. The U.S. farmer is a rich man. Between Jan. 1, 1956 and Jan. 1, 1957, total agricultural equities (all assets minus all liabilities) rose by $8 billion to an all-time high of $157.3 billion. In every single category, farmers increased their net worth. Livestock values rose almost 5%, machinery 3%, household goods more than 4%. Even farmers' cash deposits, bond holdings and other investments grew bigger, in some...
...Marion Folsom tried to revive interest by calling a special press conference to report the President was still behind the bill. Then he went off to the White House to discover that the President was not about to issue any ringing endorsements. Next day Ike's position became clearer. Leaving a White House conference, House Minority Leader Joe Martin reported the President "not entirely satisfied" with the compromise. But, said Martin: "I think that in all probability the Administration will accept it as a starter if passed by Congress...