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Seven poems appear in the Lion Rampant, three by Bayard Chandler, a graduate student who will have a book of poetry published this fall. Chandler's writing is execrable; his use of imagery would provide budding poets with an excellent catalogue of flagrant errors to avoid. "In the Fall" abounds with trite images and mixed metaphors...
...girls will quietly shake their heads over the change, like the four lowerclassmen who wrote in to the Sophian, "With the loss of Interim, Smith has become just another good school." But nearly everyone will slowly being to agree to his own culpability. "The abuses of Interim have been flagrant," write the Sophian editors. "Unfortunately you can't run a College forever on an ideal if it only benefits a minority...
...cobblestoned streets. Honduras' President made a last desperate phone call to Ambassador Burrows for U.S. help. But Washington could not act that fast-if indeed it knew what to do. Over the radio came the classic announcement: "The patriotic armed forces" had overthrown the President "to end flagrant violations of the constitution and obvious Communist infiltration...
...said that self-deception on racial issues was characteristic of the North as well as of the South but that "the self-deception in the South is more flagrant because there is more contact between races...
...leaders seem trivial technicalities. Yet it is they whom the Government has decided to pursue; the nearly countless instances of police brutality have not attracted the Attorney General's attention. They are not, apparently, "matters of serious Federal legal concern." Governors Wallace and Barnett remain firmly in office despite flagrant contempt of the Federal courts...