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...National War College, units of the Army and Air Force, the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. Government's broadcasting system in West Berlin, and private organizations as diverse as the Anchorage, Alaska, League of Women Voters and the Columbia Broadcasting System. The American Automobile Association is distributing Ode to the Road (Sept. 10) to its nationwide membership. A student found a boon in What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers (Jan. 7). "More than anything else," he wrote us, "those two pages helped to wrap up a semester's course in modern philosophy-and just...
...Your Essay, "Ode to the Road" [Sept. 10], was most refreshing. We in the traffic engineering field are plagued by the prophets who contend that despite tremendous improvement in highway design and traffic control, we are destined to prolonged congestion. These prophets conclude that a gain of 6,000,000 vehicles per year in the U.S. is too much to absorb. This is ridiculous, but it takes little to convince a disgruntled motorist that such prognostications are valid. Traffic is being handled more efficiently now than ever before, and this situation will continue to improve. Your constructive piece should alleviate...
...Your Essay "Ode to the Road" [Sept. 10] has accomplished the impossible. It has solved the traffic problem and at the same time presented the Government with a new, lip-smacking spending program: just think, a subsidy to car manufacturers for not producing cars...
...exquisite evocations of Lorca's poetic moods. Butterflies & Starlings. The poet's own drawings capture more the passion of a moment; Prieto's, the controlled fire that is Lorca's hallmark. The imagery that surprises in print, astonishes in pictures. Lorca's Ode to Walt Whitman, for example, goes: "Not for one moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies." And there is Prieto's Whit man, bewilderingly beautiful with butterflies snared in his flowing beard. The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, meanwhile, has starlings nestling...
...goes. The old bourgeois-baiter composes a contented ode to his new kitchen and a hymn to hot baths, a worried incantation against insomnia and some earnest lines on the higher significance of regularity. It is both absurd and touching to see the aging lion mew so meekly. He seems humbly grateful for the small favors of existence, humbly aware of the failures of his private life. In a poem about bedrooms he writes sadly: about blended flesh...