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Before the magazine was off the press, shop stewards at the Havana plant where the Latin American edition is printed issued a public statement complaining that TIME'S ideas do not conform to Castro "revolutionary sentiments" and charging that the story contained "false and tendentious pronouncements.'' Within 24 hours after the issue hit the stands, Cubans bought more than twice the normal number of copies. A political columnist for Castro's mouthpiece newspaper Revolución (who had obviously read the Che story down to the last word) sniffed that he had "little time for TIME...
...Hugh Auden is a chameleon among modern poets. He has moved from Marxism to Anglo-Catholicism, changed with startling ease from the gay garb of a tart poetaster to the grave robes of the searcher for ultimate truth. He often goes back over his poems and revises them to conform with his new sentiments. From some of his work, as his thinking turned increasingly conservative, he dropped scathing references to dons, capitalists and churchmen-for instance these lines written...
...free to voice its opinions on all matters, whether domestic or foreign; this, you will agree, is a freedom basic to the exercise of democracy. Unfortunately, recent incidents in Cuba make it quite clear that it is dangerous for anyone there to voice opinions which do not conform with government policy...
...morning and thinks about what he is going to write that day. Next he sits down, writes it and sends it off to his paper. After that, he goes over to the appropriate Government department and explains what he has written and how he expects them to conform with that day's story...
...College Bowl affords, in order truly to comprehend the world in which they perforce will move. It is all very well for young people to flirt with individuality and rugged independence, but when they get out of college they will have to learn that in this world we must conform--if the other boys push buttons on a quiz show, Harvard should...