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...Winthrop-Comstock Lion Rampant was named by The Nation last spring as one of the ten best college magazines in the country, but the current issue of this little magazine does not quite live up to the accolade. It does not, in fact, even live up to its own pretensions. The Lion Rampant contains a depressingly great quantity of writing by people who cannot write and, worse yet, bad writing by usually good writers...
...most notable member of this latter category is Robert Dawson '64. Three of Dawson's poems appear in the magazine; they must have been retrieved from his waste basket by some copy hungry Lion Rampant editor. The poet seems to lack any rudimentary "feel" for the music of poetry, and much of his imagery is contrived and almost meaningless. For example...
Other contributions to the Lion Rampant outdo the mediocrity of Dawson and Littlejohn. Cecile Williamson's "Atlanta" is the most feeble imitation of literature in the magazine. Skirmante Makaitis translated two folk tales from the Lithuanian (apparently into English). One of them, "Stolen Bread," begins...
...going to give up the job." That was last January, and if Jack Kennedy had not been kidding, he would be back in Boston by now. For February was another gloomy month, and the New Frontier can only hope that March, which came in like a lion, will walk out like a lamb...
Frederick's grandfather was the great conqueror Frederick Barbarossa; his father was Heinrich VI of Germany, the man who captured Richard the Lion-hearted and whom the Italians accurately called Heinrich the Cruel. His mother Costanza brought the Sicilian crown in her dowry, but Heinrich had to subdue Sicily before he could wear it. This done, he burned alive all of Costanza's relations to ensure that he could wear it in peace. It seems certain that Costanza struck back by conspiring with Celestine III (who, like all Popes of the period, worked to undermine a strong king...