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Pure Fountain. It has been said that "when Wordsworth's inferior work has been pruned away, only a half dozen first-rate poems remain. Arnold in his selection found 312 pages of first-rate poetry; Housman finds only 129 pages. Included in his selections are the Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Tintern Abbey, Michael, the best episode from The Prelude, a few narrative poems and a swatch of lyrics, 14 of Wordsworth's grand total of nearly 150 sonnets (some of which Housman considers greater than Milton's). All the Lucy poems are included. From...
...would have government on a world level, and the U.S. national government, like those of all other nations, would, in the field of war and preparations for war, be inferior to and subject to the United Nations. . . . Are we going to be frightened by mere words into disregarding the realities of the world in which we live...
...advice to civilians: the hard back of your fist to any returning G.I. or officer who attempts wiping his feet on you as he has been accustomed to wipe his feet on Europeans (all of them) whom he considers "inferior...
...stomach. Florid press notices about his team-and they are a steady diet again this year-give it the growls. No advocate of die-for-the-old-school pep talks, Blaik has only one antidote for incipient overconfidence: he preaches cold facts, chalks out in black & white how an inferior team can whip a mightier one that makes a few mistakes...
...musical circles, the Boston Symphony owes its great reputation to precision playing and the persistent performance of new music. Koussevitzky's Beethoven has started numerous arguments; his Mozart is generally considered inferior to that of most reputable conductors. Russian music is his forte, and his Brahms is second only to Toscanini...