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Most of these poems are restrained when compared with Walt Whitman's effusive When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Nor are they elegiac in the usual sense. In poetry as elsewhere, the sea of faith has receded, and poets no longer have recourse to the traditional symbols of comfort and deliverance. The poems are for the most part stoical, terse, plainspoken. But all of them bespeak a grief as great as any poetry of the past...
...long ago, the Christian Century persuasively summed up Southern Baptism thus: "There are some striking inconsistencies. Fervent for missionary work among peoples of all races, it yet has to come to terms with the racial problems in its own dooryard. Pouring millions of dollars into education, it yet has made no effort to recommend ministerial stand ards to its cooperating churches. While loudly proclaiming its zeal to win the world for Christ, it yet bans any official relationship to national or world ecumenical movements. As they invade new territories, domestic and foreign, their cultural and social presuppositions are being challenged...
...Heroic Soul: Poems of Patriotism (Decca). One of the "Parnassus" series on such primary emotions as love, faith, humor and patriotism. This record tempers its heroics with taste, especially in Arnold Moss's reading of Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and Longfellow's The Building of the Ship...
Like corn like picture. The charm of the play was in its note, however falsetto, of meadowy romp and dooryard homeliness. But the demand of the giant screen is for size and spectacle. The figure of Laurie, far away and touching as she sings Out of My Dreams ("and into your arms"), becomes on the screen a colossal closeup in which the heroine's left nostril alone is large enough to park a jeep in. The dances, too, come far too close for comfort. Though Agnes de Mille revised them for the camera, they now seem more like sophomore...
...National Memorial Park to the Curtin fenceline. Citing an old Virginia law that prohibits cemeteries closer than 750 ft. to residences, Curtin argued the matter in court. The court ruled that the law did not apply to existing cemeteries, and National Park began to creep toward Curtin's dooryard. The cemetery, a mortician's dream, features "music from the trees," bars tombstones (graves are marked by bronze plaques, level with the clipped lawns) and boasts an impressive statuary group, The Fountain of Faith, by famed Scupltor Carl Milles (TIME, Oct. 20, 1952). For a while, Marlowe negotiated with...