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Robert Frost's most recent work will scarcely add to the controversy as to his place in American letters. "The Witness Tree," the author's first publication in six years, gives the impression that Frost considers his work complete and is ready to leave the rough hewn bench for the easy chair of age and reputation...
...creative use of the form. Instead of using the orchestra as an instrument of expression, Brahms makes it the goal itself. This point I have belabored before, I know, but previously only with regard to general thematic development. Here the themes themselves seem cut from harsher rock, deliberately hewn out in large chunks to satisfy a standard of bigness...
...sailing canoe is indigenous to Chesapeake Bay. Modeled after those used by Indians in Maryland waters, its hull is hewn out of three or five huge logs, spiked together. Long before the Civil War, Bay fishermen used log canoes for tending crab pots. During the war, they were used to run the blockade from the Eastern to Western shore. The watermen of St. Michaels took to racing one another, began to build lighter, faster racing boats...
...house, with the front door opening on the street, an arched carriage entrance at the side. Over the door was a freshly painted sign: "Eggs, venison and fowl, Proprietor Elli Wagner." In the courtyard behind the house still stood the decaying shop, with moldering yellow bricks and sturdy, hand-hewn beams, where Grandfather Willkie, and his father before him, kept their coppersmithy...
...meet a second, coastal wedge, surrounding Yanina (Ioannina). The central finger bored up the precipitous Aoos River valley, reaching its metal claw deeper into Greece than Yanina is. To get this far the Italians must have cracked at least part of the Metaxas Line-concrete trenches, artillery emplacements, rock-hewn machine-gun nests built last year and this under British supervision. The mechanized Italian "Centaur Division" took part in the Aoos drive. At week's end, by which time the Italians were approaching the headwaters of the Aoos, the Greeks claimed the greatest victory of the war. Some...