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...Frye's glorification of the imagination is Romantic and his political stance and commitment to free discussion brand him as a liberal, his approach to literature is structuralist, in the very loosest sense of the term. Frye's concern is not with style or literary history or the psychological or social bases of literary expression. He believes rather that each work of art is rooted within a mythological framework derived, in our culture, from the Bible. Frye's main theoretical interest in recent years has been the classification of the various narrative movements and symbolic elements which characterize particular literary...
...council's potential clout comes from its base of more than 500 million non-Roman Catholic Christians round the world, but the ecumenical elite that runs it has only the loosest links with that increasingly restive constituency. Moreover, the council has been accused of "selective indignation," flogging capitalists in general and the U.S. in particular while ignoring evils elsewhere...
...from Pound Ridge, N.Y., was actively recruited by Penn, Yale, and Princeton before deciding on Harvard. "Peerless Pete" is the holder of the freshman two mile record and was beaten to the mile record by a fraction of a second by his roommate, Jon Enscoe. Pottetti is easily the loosest, most relaxed runner on the team. His long-range goal is to make the Olympic squal as a steeplechaser...
...problems of intermarriage with Peggy and Guy, found them well aware of the risks. As to their tender ages, Napier said: "Peggy, for her years, is amazing. She has a kind of maturity, a solidity, going way beyond her years. And Guy, he's one of the loosest, calmest, easiest fellows -of any race." Guy's mother concurs...
...rejecting even the loosest rein from the national party, the federation may have gone too far. Several high-ranking Republicans called for a complete shake-up of the Y.R.s, and more than one indicated he would ask for another look at that $90,000 subsidy. "These were just little things we asked for," fumed one party elder, "and they laughed in our face...