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...will take it. Rather, it seems, in the glowing days of 1958 Democratic victory, the richest prize in U.S. politics-a prize worth fighting for. And Democrats being Democrats, loving a fight as much as a frolic, the battle for the 1960 nomination shaped up as one of the grandest, free-swinging rough-and-tumbles in years...
...correspondent who had suffered an ill-defined grievance in one of her articles. Judging from past form, she fully expects her latest books to catch it from all corners of the "boggy little land." But among less partisan readers, they are sure to rank as two of the grandest japes of the season...
Beyond Time. As Seamarks opens with majestic waves of imagery, the poet celebrates the sea as the ever-renewing source and symbol of life. In endless variations on this theme, Perse evokes man's grandest and loneliest moments, his immemorial past, his intimations of a nobler future. With its Invocation. Strophe, Chorus and Dedication-and its sensuous neopagan salute to raw nature-Seamarks reads a little like a drama put on for the approval of the gods on Olympus. A long section symbolizing union with the sea might pass for impassioned love poetry. The final evocation...
...been ringing doorbells all this spring in a 100-mile radius to find rooms. Many visitors were up early in the morning to walk miles around Manhattan, pushing perambulators and politely peddling their quotas of the Watchtower and Awake! before hurrying off to the assembly grounds. "This is the grandest of news," said Nathan Homer Knorr, head of the Witnesses. "We are living at the end of this worry-filled, problem-racked, loveless old world. We want the new. We are eager to leave...
...hunting expedition in Missouri, baseball's grandest unretired old (41) man, New York Yankee Outfielder Enos Slaughter, trailed his two companions and their setters by about 10 yds. Suddenly the two other hunters heard a thud just behind them. Whirling around, they saw Slaughter grinning and, a later paced-off 30 ft. from him, a rabbit kicking its last. Said Marksman Slaughter: "Well, you wouldn't want me shooting back here, so I just whomped it with a rock." Then he modestly added: "Shucks, it wasn't moving...