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...their subjects. Jennifer MacLeish (no relation) is the most successful, possibly because her poem about the mystic love of St. Francis is simple in conception, which allows a great deal of lyric beauty. Her rhythm comes in soft waves, like the gliding of the proverbial spiritual dove, and she implements it by her visual construction, which 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...
...pole vault and the shotput were hurt the most by inexperience, since the team lacked a pole vauiter and the best shotputter dove for the swimming team...
...Power to Blame. As U.S. readers of the Russian mind dove into the news of Malenkov's descent, interpretations rippled further and further from the central point. Did the change portend a reversal of the post-Stalin "soft" line? Was it a struggle between "liberal" Communists favoring consumer goods, and "tough" Communists relying on terror and bent on war? Or was it a purely personal struggle for power...
...above all, he warned, in the kind of vituperative language that has not been used since the peace dove got its latest set of wings two years...
When paint failed his purpose, Dove would turn to collage (pasting oddly assorted things together to make a picture). He portrayed his grandmother by superimposing a bit of her needlepoint, a page from her Bible and some pressed flowers, upon old shingles. To depict willow trees in the rain he mounted twigs, flecked with gelatine, on glass. Wild and precise at once, he would try anything, and always with exquisite craftsmanship. Until his death, Dove's painted patterns of blobby color and flickering line gained steadily in emotional refinement, but their refinement resulted in a kind of fragility. Seen...