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...poem, however, grows more obscure in each verse and his fifth stanza is marred by a series of strained images. Peter Junger's four-line verse, "Billet Doux," is not obscure but its clarity is its only recommendation. Although erratic in its rhyming scheme, David Chandler's "The Paradox," shows a forceful imagination and a facile handling of his subject. The poem moves from earthy allegory to the metaphysical with a minimum of roughness...
...recent months the clamor in France for pulling up stakes and getting out of Indo-China has been louder than ever beore. This may seem rather a paradox, in view of increased vigor and will to win in the theater itself, under General Henri Navarre (TIME, Sept. 28). But since the end of the war in Korea, France is the only Western nation shedding blood on a major scale to fight Communism in Asia. Hence the resurgence of the blood & dollars theme-which could not be raised very loudly while the U.S. was fighting in Korea. Also. France now faces...
...Ladder. Mrs. Dougherty's analogy, diffuse as it was, indicated how many a farmer explained away the paradox of disliking Government interference while voting for more. From 1920 on, U.S. farmers fought relentlessly for a standard of living on a par with that of city dwellers. The first real attempt to help them on a national scale, the McNary-Haugen bill, got through Congress, but was vetoed by Calvin Coolidge in 1927 and again in 1928. The Agricultural Adjustment Acts of the '303 finally began to raise the farmer's position on the U.S. economic ladder During...
...consistent policies. vigorous in their aptness to the present and striking in their maintenance of Harvard's best traditions. . . . A Provost must somehow secure confidence while playing politics, a feat which Mr. Buck accomplished with astonishing success. . . . It is a rare combination, ruthlessness and warmth; but from this paradox of character have come most of the advances by which Harvard has retained its place as the foremost American college...
...Gasperi, West Germany's Adenauer and France's Bidault sit down to negotiate a treaty or discuss the future, they draw from a common religious inspiration that sees Europe reunited as it was before Europe burst asunder in post-Reformation strife. They share, too, the paradox of having come to power frankly religious men, in a Europe heavily influenced since the Age of Enlightenment by secularistic and often anti-religious political doctrine. In such a scene, the Christian Democrats have learned not to accent their sectarian differences, but to stress what they have in common...