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Poet Stephen Spender and two critics disagreed last night on published revisions of his poem "Shapes of Death Haunt Life" in the featured half of his Poet's Theatre reading...
...poet, will give a reading from his poems at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Fogg Museum. Two critics, Edwin Honig, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English, and J. M. Brinnin of the New York City Poetry Center will discuss Spender's recent changes in his poem, "Shapes of Death Haunt Life...
...Long Vow. Abandoned, Chitor became a haunt of tigers, one of a thousand Hindu shrines, and today the only recurring evocation of its stirring last days is the curse which may sometimes be heard on Indian lips: "By the sin of the sack of Chitor." The Rajput armorers became a tribe of wandering blacksmiths called the Gadia Lohars, big, fork-bearded men in pink turbans, women wearing silver bangles and big silver nose rings, and untouchables worshiping the smallpox goddess, Sheetala. Without quite knowing why, they still observe their ancient vow: never do they sleep under a roof, but live...
...time ( I Have Been Here Before, Time and the Conways}, would rather like to take his fantasies seriously. The one exception is Uncle Phil on TV, an uproarious account of how the unwanted uncle whose insurance money was spent by his family on a TV set returns to haunt every program they turn...
...unpleasant over with first, it is enough to say that Jerard Hartman's comedy script is not funny. The idea, an unwary dupe being pushed into campaigning for clean politics, may not be entirely unsullied by past uses, but settling on a fortune teller's haunt as his headquarters does much to brighten the theme. Situation cannot substitute for wit unfortunately, and Hartman seems to have felt his duties over upon conception...