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...clique, no decade of time. The impression made by his poems is not of a blaze of fireworks but of a white-hot center. At his least impressive, he is spare and dry; at his peak, his closest neighbors are the lyricists of ancient Greece. Where lesser poets exalt or complain lustily, Graves writes like one who is in perpetual mourning but is also far too proud to take refuge in disillusioned reading or drinking. This combination of subject doom and kingly dignity gives his works the special quality that distinguishes him from all other poets...
...Angeles, 905 voting "commissioners" of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (northern) turned out for its 167th General Assembly, representing 2,658,903 members and 256 presbyteries. Without a dissenting voice, the delegates approved a statement of the church's Permanent Commission deploring the Roman Catholic "trend to exalt the figure of the Virgin Mother to the office of associate partner in the work of redemption." This development, said the statement, "has widened the breach between the Roman Catholic Church and all other Christian communions...
...successful scholastically, most of them do even better socially with an almost four to one ratio of boys to girls. While twenty or thirty years ago, the co-eds were held in considerable disesteem and Cornell men in a griping mood still occasionally exalt the merits of "imports" over the home-grown variety, the last real student resistance to co-education seems to have died out with...
Argentina received Cabot's speech with rejoicing. At the annual Loyalty Day demonstration in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo, often a blow-off of anti-U.S. oratory, Peron said last week: "I should like to exalt the great personality of General Eisenhower, who with a magnificent gesture of friendship sent his brother* to unify and solidify the bonds of our peoples. I am the happiest of men at this result." In a front-page editorial entitled
...Kelly, expresses thoughts on the poverty and turbulence of life. Although Kelly's scope is narrow is this piece, he takes one idea and develops it smoothly, leaving a clear impression at the end. Only one line is out of tone with the rest of the poem; yet few exalt or take the dreariness off the dark tone of Reconsiderations as a a whole...