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...Poetica. In The Bronx, Alan Siegel, summoned for smoking in a subway, defended himself in eight stanzas of wretched doggerel, got punishment to fit both crimes. The magistrate's decision: "Your poem is fine, it's quite a line. Next time heed 'No Smoking' sign. The verdict is $2 fine...
Whither Younger Sons? How much heed the young men of Quebec would give to the plea was questionable. Once predominantly rural, Quebec is now (next to Ontario) the most urban province.* Almost 95% of its 155,000 farmers own their farms. But they cannot afford to buy new land in established areas for their many sons because 1) land prices have risen and 2) mechanization requires larger and thus more costly farms. Hence some 180,000 unmarried sons between 15 and 30 are currently wondering where to farm or whether to farm at all. Many will wind up in city...
...heed my craft...
...heed my warning, if wouldst have bliss...
Looking Down. "By academism we mean: to evaluate things by ingrained custom. . . . But life is different, unbridled, without respect. . . . The U.N., spontaneous creation in the fading hour of a society outmoded by the elan of a new life, must take heed! Bad shepherds are not lacking...