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Last week all that changed in a donybrook fought, in the words of Poet Louis MacNeice, with "the soft-spoken malice, the ostentatiously throwaway display of inside information, the heavy-lidded, thin-lipped irony, the addiction to verbal arabesques, the exquisite verdigris of cynicism, that have traditionally characterized this city of sneering spires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Poetry & Politics | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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