Word: elo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PLATERO AND I (218 pp.)-Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by Eloïse Roach-University of Texas...
Tenuous Transition. More than a quarter of a century ago, Eloïse Roach fell in love with Poet Jiménez' best-loved book, Platero and I, determined to translate it. Many experts in Spanish literature (including Jiménez himself and his late wife), thought that the book's 138 prose poems were too delicate to make the transition to English. But in 1935 Teacher Roach traveled to Madrid and begged the shy, ailing Jiménez to look at the beginning she had made. Sitting on a couch together, the poet and his wife began...
...power is Montgomery's password. Top U.S. Air Force men credit him with "writing the book" on modern use of air power as early as 1944. SHAPE'S top air man, U.S. General Lauds Norstad, considers the field marshal "the most elo quent and effective spokesman for air power in the world today." Says Montgomery himself: "I maintain the dominant factor in war is air power. It is the weapon which dictates everything you do, although the final conclusion is, of course, land...
Speaking for the Tories, Winston Churchill last week brought in a partisan but elo quent indictment: "We now approach the crisis to which every spendthrift comes when he has used up everything he can lay his hands on, and everything he can beg or borrow, and must face the hard reckoning of facts . . . With the immense aid given us by the U.S. and our dominions from overseas, there was no reason why [Britain] should not have got back by now to solvency, security and independence...