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...which endows his conscience and will with the craving for the good, which empowers his heart to love; imprisoned hopelessly in this world of strife and frustration, here to center all his hopes and here to erect his paradise . . . He is but a passing shadow of no duration, a fragment of no intrinsic or ultimate worth...
There is a fragment of Robert Bly's Garrison Prize winning poem "The Indian Trail" printed under the title "Famine." It is the most finished piece in the current issue, and it is unfortunate that only a portion of the whole poem could appear. Mr. Bly's images and choice of words are always clear and appropriate; probably because he has chosen to write about something definite--a Sioux Massacre of 1862. Lyon Phelps' poem "Deutschland, Deutschland," which won honorable mention in the Garrison contest, strongly echoes Eliot in rhythm, symbols, and the use of the device of repeating fragments...
Last week the Marqués de Lozoya, Madrid's art director, asked Jesús to name his price for the fragment. "Nothing," was the answer. "It brought me adventure. To discover a Velasquez and call it one's own, even for a short time, is enough." Nonetheless, Lozoya pressed a 20,000-peseta ($1,800) reward on Jesús, proposed him for a government decoration. But Jesús was already off to the junk shops again. "If anyone finds more pieces," he declared, "I am the man who should. I have that Velasquez feeling...
...cloister's sexton for almost 40 years when his curiosity about the tombs finally got the better of him. One night while the nuns were safely asleep, Garcia pried open one of the coffins with a heavy metal hook. After fishing around patiently, he pulled out a fragment of gold brocade. Then, afraid of a sound scolding from the abbess, he hid his find, kept his secret to himself. Finally Garcia confided in Archeologist José Luis Monteverde, curator of national property. Monteverde communicated with Madrid and a joint committee of medieval experts, headed by 80-year-old Gomez...
...John C. Trever, of the International Council of Religious Education, announced that one of them was almost certainly the lost Book of Lamech, mentioned in medieval Greek lists of apocryphal books of the Bible. Because of the difficulty of unwrapping the fragile leather, only a four-by-eight-inch fragment containing 26 lines has been studied so far. The snippet, says Dr. Trever, seems to be a discussion between Noah's father, Lamech, his mother, Bithenosh, and his grandfather, Methuselah, about their ark-building offspring...