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Patchen is a big boy now, 47 years old, and one's initial reaction is to remark that the fellow still hasn't grown up. His work is formless, often maudlin, sometimes downright silly. Yet amongst his poems (and he is, or has been, a very prolific writer) are flashes of humor and even insight that make leafing through this newest volume a not wholly unrewarding hour...
Last week there was action. The President reminded the U.S. of both its strengths and weaknesses. The stock market rallied. The missile program exploded with successes. The spur-of-the-moment conference between Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, formless in its inception, turned into a program for free world development. Leadership had begun to reassert itself...
...documentary nature of the narrative. It no less constantly' proclaims the strength of the subject matter-its ability to vibrate and electrify as theater-and the weakness, its inability to widen and deepen as drama. The cause is less the usual documentary one, that truth tends to be formless, than that in Compulsion truth lacks a spacious enough frame of reference...
...self-awakening of the formless self," Shinichi Hisimatsu, visiting professor of Zen Buddhism, said last night in Andover Chapel of the Divinity School...
Everyone has this kind of formless self-consciousness, but few recognize it, because it "absolutely transcends form and limitation...