Word: owings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLLECTED POEMS, by Robert Graves. The songs of this bent-nosed Jove are clear, precise and passionate, and owe little to the century in which they were written. The author, who has filled some 70 books with several sorts of excellent prose, justifiably considers the poems his life work...
Most of the red ink, however, is Red. In all, Russia and its satellites owe the U.N. $55 million-and Russia has come up with a new excuse to avoid a higher assessment: poverty. In effect, Moscow demands that the U.S. shoulder more of the burden "because the aftermath of the past is still being felt" in Russia...
...Compton-Burnett and Evelyn Waugh, sat in Firbank's school. In fact, Firbank's exotics-improbable princesses, epicene cardinals, Caribbean market queens and so on-talk with the raw strength of Hardy's Wessex peasants. Even Hemingway's brusque and hirsute mannerisms, Powell argues, may owe something to the ambiguous ellipses of the characters in Ronald Firbank's fairy kingdoms...
...decades at least. Like John Hay and the "Open Door," Welles will be remembered because of slogan that sums up his major accomplishment: the "Good Neighbor" policy. To him is due the credit for opening the battle against dollar diplomacy. If the battle is yet far from won, we owe a debt of respect to the man who challenged not only the dominant forces around him, but also his own background...
...second destructive influence, says Barzun, is the culture boom itself. "Feeling the old attachment to high Art," Barzun sees in the "very abundance and availability of the democratized arts the causes of a prompt dissolution...The powerful devices of mechanical reproduction and high pressure distribution to which we owe the cultural 'awakening' necessarily distort and thus destroy. All the new media make arbitrary demands on the materials fed through them. And because the public to be served is large and failure costly, it is important that the product suit-hence the endless cutting and adapting, reworking and diluting...