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...portrait he commissioned; "Wait, sir, and see how time will render you,/ Who talk of vision but have no sight." "The Marginal Way," a poem about the dying capacity for celebration, confessed "the time's fright within me," alluding to Auschwitz, and knew some newspaper on a porch would "flap the tidings of some dirty...
...weighs as much as 47 cans of Campbell's chicken-with-rice soup. Yvonne Younis, 7, lay down on a brobdingnagian desk top, twelve times normal size, beside a ruler in the same scale and found that she is 4 in. tall. Mark Stanton, 10, crawled under the flap of an Indian hut, looked around and then popped a bit of pemmican into his mouth...
Following the Lampposts. Customs officials rush to their posts in the airport, smile and wave tourists toward Mexico City. Along the way, brilliant banners flap from lampposts. In town, op-art posters, balloons and signs give a carnival gaiety to the street scenes; many billboards have been papered over to proclaim an Olympic theme: "Everything is possible in peace." Even the shantytowns look good. Inhabitants were given buckets of free paint, and they responded with a typically Mexican gusto. Some shacks wear bright stripes, others have blazing coats of lavender, green, or orange...
...television policy this week. The Administration's caution toward the medium is understandable and so is its unwillingness to set down a dogma on what can and cannot be televised. But by retaining the shaky criterion of "balance," the University has left itself open to a repeat of the flap over January's teach-in along with the inevitable charges of censorship when a particular event is declared to be "unbalanced...
Sensing a flap of sorts, Pusey referred the decision on Watson's work to the Harvard Corporation. It was the first time that University officials outside of the Press chose to review the editorial judgment of Wilson and the Syndics. Even though the Press continued to stand behind Watson's manuscript, the Corporation decided to reject it. In Pusey's words, publication would have meant "taking sides in a controversy among scientists." Pusey and the Fellows forgot that any work--whether a memoir, detached scholarship, or pastoral poetry--is bound to offend somebody, even a good scientist...