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...characters; certainly Eliot's choices Monday night conformed to his distinctions: some of the poems were nearly impossible to follow in a reading, because they were in Eliot's own psychological shorthand, and spoken as though he were thinking out loud. The dramatic poems were easier to follow, and easiest of all were those addressed to an audience. It is only in these last, clearly orated poems that Eliot seemed conscious that he was reading publicly, and then he was magnificent. (An exception to all categories, of course, is his delightful "cat" poetry. He read a charming sort of Browning...
Grabgrind came to Harvard eight years later wary of its reputation as a place where one was asked to give often. He found, however, that he did not even need to employ his slippery skills; one could whisk past the supplicants at registration lines in 14 seconds flat. Easiest of all was the week of the Combined Charities Drive, which Grabgrind spent in Bermuda...
...great advantage of the hyperbolic paraboloid is that, because of a rather devious characteristic of the surface, a carpenter building the form does not have to bend his wood. "I am not a mathematician," Mr. Candela asserts, "and this is difficult to explain." Perhaps the easiest way to understand the principle is to remember that at any point on a saddle a straight line may be drawn which does not leave the surface, as it would, for example, with a sphere. And where the geometrician can draw straight lines, the carpenter can nail planks...
...enlistees. Prior to now, volunteers for the Air Force's regular program have been mostly 17 or 18; lately, there has been a great increase in the number of men 21 through 24 applying. Evidently, more older men are convinced by Air Force propaganda which calls its program "the easiest way to get a commission--it's like ROTC in three months." The Army has also found an increase in the number of college graduates enlisting, in spite of the fact that it has no special program for them. There has been an increase in the number...
...California Republicans he invited for dinner one evening last week, Richard Nixon represented the host with the most. Polls showed that of all likely Republican candidates, Nixon would have the easiest time defeating Democrat Pat Brown in California's 1962 gubernatorial election. Painfully mauled in 1958, the California G.O.P. needed a ticket leader like Nixon, who boosted 22 new Republicans into Congress last November while narrowly losing the presidency. As they pulled their rattan chairs a little closer together in the Nixon playroom and sipped their cocktails, the visitors strained to hear whether their host would be willing...