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...Price of Poetry. In style, if not in name, Novotny leads a baronial life in Prague Castle, high above the city. He seems aloofly indifferent to the restive talk that fills the bars, coffee shops and cabarets in the city below. Prague's pent-up ire came to a head on May Day, when 3,000 students from Charles University gathered for a poetry reading in Kinsky Park before the statue of Romantic Poet Karel Macha (1810-36). Novotny had banned the students' reading last year, and this time the crowd was infiltrated by plainclothes security cops. Before...
...Pent-Up Odor. Obviously fearful that to call Jenkins before the Rules Committee might be to embarrass seriously the Democratic Administration, the Democrats voted down the Republican effort. In so doing, they chose to clamp down a lid on the official investigation of Bobby Baker rather than let it run its full course. Conceivably, there could be nothing more to it than was already known. But in putting on a lid, the Democrats were running a risk; if that lid ever blew off, the pent-up odor could be overpowering...
...Fulbert Youlou, President of the Republic of the Congo, shook hands with Charles de Gaulle and boasted: "Like you, I am irreversible." Last week, on the third anniversary of his country's independence, Youlou was reversed right out of office by an explosion of his people's pent-up discontent...
...pure, raw values, he did not disparage consistency as an ideal. On occasion critics have accused him of advocating belief in whatever seems most pleasant at a given moment. James considered this accusation an "impudent slander" involving a fundamental misunderstanding of pragmatism. He visualized himself, in fact, as pent in "between the whole body of funded truths squeezed from the past and the coercions of the world of sense about...
...pent-up bully is almost unknown at Maple Park, and children disturbed by sickness, divorce of parents, newborn brothers or sisters, or a death in the family, get a break. While facing up to the problem, they can slow down at school, thus heal emotions faster. Scott Warren, now eleven, was once so ill that he missed more than half a year of first-grade fundamentals. In a graded school, says his teacher mother, he might never have caught up. "In the ungraded plan, he missed absolutely nothing, going along very slowly until he was able to step up with...