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...Gaunt and broken at war's end, Braddon nonetheless hiked 17 miles to see Lord Louis Mountbatten accept General Itagaki's sword in surrender. The old sense of common humanity came back strong; Author Braddon was certain that "the war had at least taught me to like my fellow men." But back in Sydney a little later, he was not so sure. One of the first letters he received was a demand for the ?112. He offered to hand over a check for every penny if the act of payment might be photographed by the press. "I thought...
...country of majestic mountain scenery and miserable human squalor, of tremendous natural resources and examples of their wretched neglect and abuse. To the west, condors soar over abandoned Spanish silver mines near icy, blue Titicaca, highest navigable lake in the world; in the remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle whose rich soil could easily feed all Bolivia...
...Mexico City's resplendent Palace of Fine Arts, a glittering throng gathered this week to witness the inaugural ceremonies of a new President. The leaders of Mexico and the envoys of 57 foreign governments, in braid-crusted uniforms or solemn full dress, watched as a gaunt man in a plain black suit stepped forth. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had come to take his oath as President...
...themes: human flesh as ineradicable temptation, romantic love as a path to mutual hatred, bourgeois life as a variety of spiritual sloth, and free will as man's great burden ("Our bad actions belong wholly to us"). The book is written in a style that is almost spectacularly gaunt. In tone it resembles a medieval morality play; in shape, a modern dance confined to anguished and angular gestures...
...died at 76 on Christmas Day, 1950. All the poems he ever published would fit in one small book. But he was admired as a poet, and loved as a friend, by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Padraic Colum, William Vaughn Moody. A tall, thin, diffident man with a gaunt face and staring eyes, Ridgely Torrence wrote his rare verse with passion and unceasing care; his poems, polished by humble sincerity as well as art, are understandable by common readers. An Ohio-born Greenwich Villager, Torrence loved life and reverenced it as deeply as many of his contemporaries seemed...