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Signs and Sounds. Amiable, ruminative, often obvious, sometimes pontifical, Poetry and Experience is based on MacLeish's Harvard lectures as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and it assumes a student's curiosity in taking apart a butterfly to see what makes it flutter. Ideas do not make poetry flutter, according to MacLeish. Reduced to prose, even great poetry is full of platitudes-life is short, love is sweet (or bitter), death is final. George Moore held that words have meaning only as signs of the things they stand for. Mallarme believed that all poetic meaning stemmed from...
...comfortable, if not comforting, margin of some 80 electoral votes. Thus any interest in the deliberations of the electoral college (which, by the way, met yesterday) was purely academic. The 14 unpledged Peck's Bad Boys from Alabama and Mississippi misbehaved, and there was a flutter of excitement over Kennedy's 55-vote lead in Hawaii, but the real issues in the campaign were, with one exception, resolved...
...opposed grounding 140 still flying. At least two of the crashes could be charged to pilot error, but study of others-mid-air disintegration over Indiana and Texas-had disclosed serious structural flaws. Weak ened outboard engine nacelles tended to vibrate at high speeds in turbulent air, their intense flutter could destroy a wing. The Civil Aeronautics Board and some quick-tempered politicians had demanded grounding the Electra. Quesada had insisted that while the airlines waited for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. to beef up its Electras' wings (at an estimated cost of $25 million), the planes could still safely carry...
...rose to address the Texans, Kennedy's trembling legs made his trousers flutter, and sweat beaded his upper lip. "I shall continue to vote for Senator Johnson as President, if he's nominated, or as majority leader," he said. Against Kennedy's conciliatory remarks, Lyndon launched into a barrage of sarcasm, and without mentioning Jack's name, bitterly attacked Kennedy's voting record and his Senate absenteeism. Then: "I think, Jack, we Protestants proved in West Virginia that we'll vote for a Catholic. What we want is some of the Catholic states...
...roses are to be strung on 60-ft. arches between the palace and Clarence House, the London home of the princess. From tall masts in Parliament Square will dangle metal baskets filled with pink hydrangeas and yellow marguerites; gold-tasseled banners, bearing the monograms M and A, are to flutter from 70 flagpoles along a route lined by ramrod-straight guardsmen. The estimated cost: $56,000, or five times as much as was spent on the Queen's wedding to Prince Philip in the austerity year...