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...Bayar) upset the old Republican People's Party (TIME, May 22), strange things have happened to the Turks. This week U.S. Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter and aides dropped in for a quick look. He would find a country of energy and action, of democratic ferment and confusion...
...Would it be possible," asked the note in the student suggestion box at Oxford's oldest women's college, "to serve beer in hall?" The note put Lady Margaret Hall in a ferment...
...general, with those modern American poets who seem to be more interested in talking to other people (though sometimes only to other poets) than in talking to themselves. Moreover, 62-year-old John Ransom has cast an increasingly larger shadow over three decades of U S writing history. The "ferment of his ideas in the heads of his old pupils" (a phrase Ransom applies to Aristotle) has had acknowledged results. Some of his ex-pupils: Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate...
Poet Ransom keeps his own ideas in ferment, too; he is seldom satisfied with what he writes. He thinks he will publish some more verse some day-"But it will not be exactly more of the same...
Western influence-both as progress and as ferment-is most conspicuous in the capital, Teheran (pop. almost 1,000,000). Some sections have wide boulevards and modernistic buildings; in others, narrow streets run between mud-brick hovels. Cadillacs and ratty taxis run through swarms of wailing peddlers...