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...Fear. On the wheat plains of Greece, Anestis Canalis, a walleyed voyeur (Anestis Vlachos), goes prowling along a lovers' lane. Peering through a car window, he sees a couple entwined. The woman spots him and shrieks. As Anestis gropes his way in flight through the grain, the man shouts after him: "I know who you are, you sex-starved bastard...
...wild beasts, sparrows pecking the llamas' grain....You know what...
Although this passive element in Jarrell's verse seems against the American grain, he also possessed the American male's obsession with practical detail, the ritual and vocabulary of a job. His common man's delight in the way things work gave him a great technical advantage over his brother poets. This is especially notable in his war poems. Jarrell, a washed-out pilot (too old), was a dedicated pilot instructor. He wrote about war, says Poet Karl Shapiro, not as other poets "sweating out the war in uniform," but as a participant, armed with military expertise...
...least one tractor, and some have a dozen or more; back in 1952 there were tractors on only 47% of all U.S. farms. While the tractor remains the mainstay-some 5,000,000 are in use on today's farms-the agricultural arsenal also includes 880,000 grain combines, 775,000 hay balers, 655,000 corn pickers and shelters. Virtually all of the nation's wheat, corn and sugar beets are now harvested by machine. So are most soybeans, oats, cotton...
...other agreement reached in the Kennedy Round that depends upon Congressional action is the new grain deal which guarantees higher minimum wheat trading prices. The arrangement also committed participating countries to contribute 4.5 million tons of grain to a food aid program for less developed countries. Under this plan, the U.S. would supply 42 per cent of the total or maybe much more if the other countries bought their contributing share from Uncle Sam. American groups have complained mildly over the lack of significant accomplishments in agriculture, especially the U.S. failure to obtain a satisfactory guaranteed access to a certain...