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...gives the impression of ascension. While Derry Griscom's more complex poem about the sculpted figure of a Chinese warlord develops several ideas successfully, he adds one idea too many when he begins to speculate not only on the figure, but its creator. The additional element only serves to disturb the dignity of the immobile warlord. The third poem on art is Andre Gregory's impression of impressionism, in which he exposes the cultural disintegration implicit in modern art. If Gregory's poem is to be considered for its serious significance, one can only say that he is expressing himself...
...literature and moved by his religion, cannot always be satisfied by bread and machines alone. The Congolese, or those among them who have climbed fastest from darkness to light, are slowly starting to talk about such verboten things as self-rule and democracy. Their stirrings are not enough to disturb the massive calm of the Belgian administration, or impede the spectacular advance of the Congo economy, but they are perceptible. To some Belgians they are alarming. Says a top-ranking Congo official: "What would the Negroes do with votes? Votes mean Communism...
...instructors the University would necessarily deviate from its policy of hiring graduate students, wherever possible, to teach the undergraduate sections. This policy, designed to give the students interested instructors and the graduate students teaching practice, has failed only in the area of elementary languages. Its abandonment there need not disturb its successful operation in other fields...
Such choices are not easy. The staff is under paid in a university accustomed to offering the highest salaries in its field. Not only does this disturb the librarian, but the continual effort to keep a capable staff is handicapped when some universities have a median salary $1000 a year higher than Harvard...
...when." said Evangelist Billy Graham, "because the holy Bible definitely teaches that Christ is coming back to this world! . . . First, He will disturb the economic life. There are thousands of economic injustices . . . Second, He will disturb the political status quo. The dictators, the aggressors, the crafty politicians and corrupt political systems . . . will be objects of His wrath. Third, He will disturb the social status quo . . . Fourth, He will also disturb the religious status quo. The most scathing denunciations that Christ gave 2,000 years ago were against religious leaders...