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GIMMICKRY and sentimentality are not enough. A good book of poetry should be both well-written and philosophical, expressing a cohesion of experience. Flying Inland, by Kathleen Spivack, is neither. Spivack's poetry lacks a unifying voice. Each poem remains a solitary, cricket-like rasp, grating in the reader's ear. Nothing justifies printing poor writing in any case, and nothing justifies placing these poems in a collection...
...Invitation. Other schemes are being suggested for other places. Gibbs Oil Co. has proposed one refinery inland from the deep harbor at Portland, Me., and Massachusetts politicians have invited oilmen to build another refinery in the economically depressed Lowell-Dracut area. Olympic Refineries has been investigating coastal locations in Rhode Island and New Hampshire. But wherever New England's first refinery may end up, local residents will have to approve it after confronting the persistent dilemma of economics v. ecology -the worst conundrum of the whole energy crisis...
That, at least, is the way the Israelis told it. Syrian authorities insisted that the battle had been touched off when two Israeli Phantoms streaked into Syria from the direction of Lebanon and broke the sound barrier over the inland cities of Horns and Hama. As Syrian planes rose to meet them, the Phantoms headed toward the sea, strafing a Syrian village on the way out. Over the Mediterranean, other Israeli fighters pounced on the Syrian pursuit. In the dogfight that followed, Syria said that it had shot down five Israeli jets and lost eight...
...August 11 Radcliffe went to England, busing inland to Nottingham, where they trained for ten days. On August 20 they returned to London to join the United States team en route to the Europeans...
...course, the preference was not God's but Palladio's. Why did he pre fer white? Because the protagonist in his Venetian churches, San Giorgio Maggiore and the Redentore, no less than in his villas, is light-the rich, fugitive, unstable light of the lagoon and the inland plain. Reflected from the creamy Istrian stone, absorbed by brick work and stucco, or washing solemnly across the pure vaults and domes, light gave substance a dreamlike sensuousness. No architect ever understood the ingredients of his craft better; Palladio's buildings, strict as they are, remain both exquisite...