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The last poem in the collection provides a striking contrast to "During the Eichman Trial." "A Solitude" dissects a fleeting emotion: the poet sees a blind man, and is overcome with a feeling of "strange joy/to gaze my fill at a stranger's face." It is a remarkable poem, and...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: San Francisco Poetry | 3/7/1963 | See Source »

Among the big users of Polacolor will be industrial and scientific laboratories, which often need to take quick color shots of a fleeting stage in a process or experiment. But of all Polacolor's potential users, it is the military from whom Chemist Land may get his largest orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photochemistry: Sudden Color Film | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

The real faults of course are the author's. He has taken the not-too-interesting dilemma of a not-too-enlightened boss and tried to impart a significance that just wasn't there. The result is sheer confusion at worst, (including some chronological impossibilities in Woody's life), and...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: In the Counting House | 12/4/1962 | See Source »

Your fleeting reference to bluegrass music cries out for amplification. Bluegrass is not a "polite synonym for hillbilly." It is a highly intricate derivative of the folk and jazz idioms. Both the term and the music itself received their major impetus from Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys. A bluegrass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 30, 1962 | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

An all-purpose halfback-quarterback at Salt Lake City's Granite High in 1958, Fortie drew only fleeting interest from college scouts. University of Utah boosters invited him to a recruiting banquet, but the dinner was postponed. Utah State talent hunters asked him to a swimming party, took one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Phantom of Provo | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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