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...certain impotence, a certain deficiency in communication, and attacked it again and again, rapidly, realizing each time that his attempt has been unsuccessful but not caring to return and to correct, moving on immediately for the next abortive try. He puts together various dissimilar images, which obviously connect in his own mind, but which the reader is likely to find too personal to understand. And, above all, the words when read aloud do not make pleasing sounds. The poetry is by fits markish and over-intellectual, obviously written in haste and, all in all, not easy to read...
...work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object it may represent. When a work has this powerful "vitality, we do not connect the word beauty with it. Beauty, in the later Greek or Renaissance sense, is not the aim in my sculpture. -Henry Moore...
...always sustained. Freshmen find themselves suddenly thrust into huge lecture-courses, and (once again in Bundy's words) "the meaning of the course is somehow lost in the taking of it...The Faculty is an exciting faculty, but it is often research-minded. The need, then, is to connect freshman excitement with faculty excitement...
...that "clearly the most effective way of stimulating awareness and concern, honest scholarship and intellectual zest, is to put the student in close association with a man whose work is an affirmation of these qualities." "Close association" is the key phrase here; it is this circumstance which will, hopefully, "connect freshmen excitement with Faculty excitement." Beyond this one shared starting-point, the various roads to Mecca head off in extremely different directions...
Nasty Job. The first trenches will connect stripped-out areas and so make a perimeter beyond which the fire cannot spread. Then the draglines will work in ward, digging both burning and nonburn-ing coal from the whole 130 acres. Says Mining Engineer Robert W. Bell, consultant to the Carbondale Redevelopment Authority: "A nasty job-rather dangerous." While working on burning coal, the dragline operators will be only the length of their booms (60 to 90 ft.) away from the hot stuff. Each scoopful will be dumped on high ground and sprayed with water. In many places the hot surface...