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...most important thing about Honig's skill as a poet is that it is unobtrustive. He cannot afford to let flights of technical proficiency distract his readers from the spectacles of the moral circus that he is showing them, and so he keeps himself the lens through which they observe. When he distorts it is to clarify or magnify the hidden part in which he feels the meaning lies, never to call direct attention to his own feelings or flaunt stylistic achievement. In this record of the greatest show on earth the poet breaks his reserve only...
...Conner; as a result, Faust and the audience see the vision of Marguerite through a scrimmed hole in the middle of Faust's bookcase. Faust, enraptured, signs away his soul to the Devil, drinks the potion to restore his youth. While Mephisto struts about flashing his cape to distract the audience, Faust rips off his old-man disguise and springs forward as a young...
Clumbia has only four men to distract the varsity from watching the Eli clockings against the Crimson's last opponent. Jim Amlicke off the low board and a pair of swimming twins lead what there is of the Lion's roar...
Sargent F. Kennedy '28, registrar of the College, said "We can't let just some people in a big examination room have 15 extra minutes. In a place like Memorial Hall it would distract people in other courses if we were to pass out some blue-books 15 minutes after they started writing," he added...
Although one incidental effect of the campaign was to help distract Argentina's attention from chronically rising prices, there seemed little doubt that Perón's main purpose was just what it appeared: to stamp out any possible rivals for political power. There was even some speculation that Juan Perón, although moving cautiously, was in danger of pushing the matter too far and provoking a genuine popular desire for the Catholic party he fears...