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...Shall we trust the party which wrote that tragic record to win the peace? . . . Must we go on with patchwork, crazyquilt operations? Must we go on with one policy for Europe, a feeble policy for South America, little policy for the Middle East, and changing policies for Asia? Must we go on writing off the Far East at one moment and at almost the next finding our sons fighting and dying in Korea? Must we at one time woo the Soviets as though they could be trusted, and then fall into hysterical fear of them? You and I know statesmanship...
Modernizer Coghill was too much of a poet to follow the patchwork method, i.e., simply to insert modern words where the old ones are unintelligible. He kept Chaucer's rhyme schemes, except where they no longer rang true to the modern ear. And he concentrated particularly on reproducing the lively "tone of voice" of the 14th-century original-by the seemingly paradoxical method of making the verses sound as much like 20th-century conversation as possible...
...Patchwork Fences. Western Europeans are balking. At Strasbourg, visiting U.S. Congressmen and Senators had voiced crotchety impatience at Europe's failure to dash off a constitution and proclaim a U.S. of Europe (TIME, Dec. 3). Dwight Eisenhower spoke impatiently of Europe's "patchwork territorial fences...
...fight, his left eye clamped tight, his right slashed, his lips swollen and his body a patchwork of welts, Golden Boy was a slightly tarnished matinee idol. Carter had also taken a beating: a cut over his eye took seven stitches, and may keep him out of action for a year. The $32,000 purse, most lucrative of his obscure career, would help heal the wound. But more important to Jimmy Carter was his title. In his first defense of it, he had come through like a real champion...
Mather said that only one copy of the measure was available to members of the House. And this was a "patchwork affair pasted of sheets of paper. some of which were typed and some in longhand...