Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rightful authority over taxation that the constitution now restricts very tightly. Like the counties and the Governor's Council, archaic limitations on taxation resemble, in the words of a commission several years ago, "a building with a Renaissance frame and a Elizabethan facade." They will require comprehensive, not patchwork reform, and probably only a constitutional Convention could erect such a structure suitable for the 20th century...
...reveal the man behind the masks and to place the poet among his peers is an urgent task, but Critic Charles Norman (The Magic-Maker: e. e. cummings) has not done it. His book is a triumph of industry and a signal display of disorganization, a patchwork-letters, reminiscences, vignettes-of incoherent research. Apart from a few candid shots of its subject, the book is significant only because it treats Pound seriously and heralds the work that will treat him definitively. It is a reminder that he cannot be written off and must, more and more, be written about. Pound...
Stephen Sondheim's "incidental music" is well-advertised but mostly inaudible. In all, it is a miracle that such a patchwork play comes off so well. Miss Holm had better be good...
...Patchwork. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold spent the week listening to angry demands from both sides. After counseling patience to Lumumba in New York, he flew to Brussels. Hammarskjold's session with Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Cabinet was heated. The Belgians argued that they would be complying with the U.N. resolution if they withdrew their troops to their two main bases in the Congo, pleaded that the U.N. should stay out of Katanga. Dag was unimpressed. As is his way, he pointed out that the U.N. resolution asked the Belgians to leave "the territory of the Congo...
...sure that Nixon would like to be one of the "vigorous leaders" that the challenges of the future apparently demand. It will not be easy, however, to lead such a patchwork kind of unity in any direction. Senator Goldwater has called the Democratic platform a "blueprint for socialism," but it is hard to conceive of even his wing of the party considering its platform a blueprint for anything but standing still...