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Bill Abrahams at his unusual best has written some brilliant poetry. "Lovers as Nihilists" is not in that category. The poem begins by scorning the artificiality "the contrived symbol the sly image the trick of metaphor" of the artist who reduces "passion to a poet's syllable." It ends by culogizing the blunt emotions of love and hate--"the hate that shows us naked . . . the love that cleaves us open-eyed, unmasked, unversed, alive. Voiceless poets released from artifice, whose statement sings in this most sensual peace." One hates to accuse Mr. Abrahams of hypocrisy; but when he lauds...
...Mind, for anything perception can compass, goes in our spatial world more ghostly than a ghost. . . . What then does it amount to? All that counts in life. Desire, zest, truth, love, knowledge, 'values' and seeking metaphor to eke out expression, hell's depth and heaven's utmost height...
...Matsuoka, holding interviews twice a day, discovered that Great Britain and the U. S., Australia and The Netherlands Indies, were trying to "encircle" Japan. He even suggested that "the white race cede"; 1,200,00-mile Oceania, the islands of the south Pacific "to the Asiatics," i.e., Japan. The metaphor-of-the-week was produced by the Army's spokesman, Major Kunio Akiyama. Said he: "Japan has the heart of a dove of peace, but a snake-the United States and Great Britain-has placed its egg in the dove's nest." The egg, Major Akiyama went...
...spite of an unusually strenuous schedule of extracurricular activities in Hollywood's better night clubs, Paulette Goddard remains one of this department's favorite cinema characters. La Goddard with a twinkle in her eye "gives" more than Ann Sheridan with or without sarong, to mix a metaphor. In Second Chorus, her latest picture, which co-stars her with Fred Astaire, the twinkle is still very much in evidence to the great gratification of all citizens of Brooklyn (her birth-place) and other parts of the United States...
...plan for a $35,000,000 project which caused impetuous little President Getulio Vargas to announce that the U. S. and Brazil were at last ready to collaborate. But inability to agree on property rights led U. S. Steel to break off negotiations. Yankee imperialism was damned in Latin metaphor and Japan was added to those desiring to bundle up with Brazil...