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Much of the most powerful work deals with war. There is a remarkable similarity in spirit between several of the poems collected here and the poems written by European poets during the First World War. "My Brother" is often reminiscent of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est:" "...the enemy have not left us any seedling on our lands/Other than the corpses of our dead." Another poem, "In the Valley of the Shadow of Death," evokes the horrors of war indirectly, suggesting that peace is too often taken for granted...
...they meant. We at Dartmouth's main campus in Hanover, N.H. (a small town in a small state north of Boston) were fortunate enough to have Mr. Savit's perceptive article reprinted in our school newspaper. We feel, however, that we must remark on Mr. Savit's lack of decorum and sensitivity in light of recent events at Dartmouth. Since the tragic loss to your powerful and ubiquitous squad of elegantly dressed winged warriors (we loved the pin-striped jersies and Brooks Brothers athletic undergarments), the entire freshman class has shaved their heads in mourning, the entire football team wore...
...With decorum the unwritten law of the land, the acts so far have produced the first ripples of change. London's Sotheby's, the internationally famed art auction house, has named Libby Howie, 24, as the first female auctioneer in its 232-year history. Linette Simms, 43, black and the mother of six, is now tootling along as the first woman among 350 male London school-bus drivers after previously being turned down because of her sex. And in advertising, notices now solicit "secretaries" instead of "dolly birds...
...happy, yet haunted by premonitions of difficulty which took shape the following week as the inevitable testing began. Men twenty years my senior approached me with pointless jokes about decorum, schoolboy excuses about absence, and fears of their ability to give me "what you want." These charades wouldn't help us to face our real differences, and that was precisely their point--to protect us from the embarrassment of assuming equality and then having to confront the sociological truth...
...Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall and now, says the London Evening Standard, the "Show Biz Prince." As president of the Lord's Taverners, an association of charity-minded English entertainers, Prince Charles doffed his royal decorum last week and took a turn on the boards during the Taverners' silver jubilee at London's Grosvenor House. Then, after mingling with the ball's 1,300 guests until 2 a.m., the Prince returned to his workaday world at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich...