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...whether they lend themselves to English translation is another matter. Marianne Moore is the only first-rate poet who has ever undertaken to do the whole job. How much better she has done than the standard translators becomes quickly apparent in The Head and Tail of the Serpent. A turn-of-the-century version put the familiar stanza this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Shine on Old Truths | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Willoughby said there were many faculty members willing to lend their support to the group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Green Feather' Asks Recognition | 5/21/1954 | See Source »

High scorers Larry Boles and Joe Conzelman will start at left and right wings respectively for the varsity. Rob Alvert will play at the fullback position, while John Nichols and Art Ticknor will lend support to the scrum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ruggers Set for Eli Game | 5/7/1954 | See Source »

...describe Dr. Van Dusen in terms of a business executive, leading the "fragmented and busy life of a corporation president," is to present us with a picture of less than half the man . . . Your article might lend support to the misconception of those who-particularly in Europe-think American Protestantism is too much preoccupied with the business and administrative aspects of the church's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...playing vassal to a new thane this time. Scatterbrained Bertie Wooster, for once apprehensive about the economic future of the British upper classes, has packed himself off to a home-economics school to learn all about cooking, sock-mending and polishing his own boots. Jeeves is on internal lend-lease to William, ninth Earl of Towcester, an amiable chap with "a marked shortage of the little gray cells ... It was generally agreed that whoever won the next Nobel Prize, it would not be Bill Towcester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Thane and Vassal | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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