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...poets, 40-year-old Philip Larkin (The Less Deceived). Larkin has the happy faculty of rescuing the special tenderness or peculiar anguish of small experiences that everyone has had but no one has bothered to examine. At his best, he is a dwindled Wordsworth in whose ear the ghost of Rilke sometimes whispers. In this little poem, one of Larkin's subtlest, it whispers of-death...
Beecher responded, "Young man, if the English language gets in my way, she doesn't stand a ghost of a show...
...York University sophomore, "I might say hello-if he does. This is not a social event. It's a challenge." But World Record Holder O'Brien, his plane flight delayed by bad weather, showed up late, and Gubner had to content himself with dueling a ghost. This seemed stimulus enough for Gubner, a robust 260 lbs. at 19. He tossed the 16-lb. shot 63 ft. 10¼ in., shattered O'Brien's mark...
Though I approve of your choice of President Kennedy as Man of the Year, his portrait on the cover makes me recoil and shout like Macbeth upon seeing the ghost of Banquo...
Among the "stage props" Rafton listed were "gods--single and triple, mother goddesses, ghost gods, son gods, pregnant virgins, demons, and that auxiliary cleaning establishment, purgatory...