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...Laurent has already developed Canada's seaway project far beyond the propaganda stage. Before visiting Washington, he worked out an agreement with Ontario's Premier Leslie Frost for sharing the cost of the $400 million power projects along the route.* On his way home, he stopped off in Quebec City to make a similar deal with Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis. When Parliament opens next week, St. Laurent will have a complete plan for an all-Canadian seaway ready to lay before the House of Commons for speedy approval...
...sand-painting on this page is one of scores that Navajo medicine men know by heart and create (and destroy) within a day. It is an integral part of the Navajo Night Chant, a nine-day rite which takes place soon after autumn's first frost. Its purpose is to heal the very...
Poet Robert Frost has always tried to write like a man talking. Frost himself talks like a poet, so that it is not always easy to tell whether he is quoting from his works or taking part in a conversation. An English friend once decided that his voice had "the body and tang of good draught cider," but to an Irishman hearing him read his verse it seemed that his words "were flung out from crags-they come to me like the barking of an eagle...
Listeners can now decide whether the Frostian voice is apple juice or eagle, or something better than either-a great, plain poet speaking in homely Vermont cadences. Last March, for the National Council of Teachers of English, 76-year-old Robert Frost recorded 40 minutes of his poetry, and last week the results were released in music shops. Of all the poets whose readings have been recorded (e.g., Vachel Lindsay, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot), it is Frost whose voice rings truest, and adds most to the meaning of the poems...
Listening to the records, many will feel like the Frost fan who once told the poet he never knew how to read Frost until he heard him talk. But as Frost reads Mending Wall, Two Tramps in Mud Time, The Death of the Hired Man, and 21 others, it becomes plain that, barring shyness, any Vermont hired hand would know how to read the poems right the first time...