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...Widely acclaimed for his poems, which were distinguished by compressed emotion expressed in courtly rhetoric, Ransom was also an influential teacher. As an instructor at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s, the Tennessee-born Rhodes scholar shepherded the Fugitives, a flock of young Southern poets (including Allen Tate and Robert Perm Warren) who celebrated the virtues of Southern agrarianism in defiance of the machine age. In 1937 Ransom moved to Kenyon College, where he attracted such poets as Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell, and fathered the New Criticism, which stressed rigorous textual analysis rather than the study of an author...
...most of his 14 years with the CIA, Marchetti was a bright young agent on the way up. After serving with U.S. Army intelligence in West Germany during the early '50s, he returned to Perm State to major in Soviet studies. Because of his background, he was recruited for the CIA. He spent a year in training in covert operations, then became an intelligence analyst, concentrating largely on Soviet military matters...
...Elkhart, Ind., Elden W. Perm, 42, a onetime car salesman, expects that his company, Perm Associates, will produce half of this year's bumper crop. The tie-in between the path of righteousness and the macadam turnpike comes through most clearly in one of Perm's latest offerings: I'M HEADED FOR THE PROMISED LAND, SEE YOU THERE -J.C. Or as the Old Testament counsels (Jeremiah 31: 21): "Set thee up way-marks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway...
...retained his ability to create characters of psychological breadth and substance. His newest project-a life of Napoleon-should answer that question. Orson Welles' old appraisal still holds: "Kubrick is a great director who has not yet made his great film." ∙ MIKE NICHOLS. Unlike Kubrick and Perm, Nichols arrived in Hollywood with formidable riches and reputation. As an entertainer he had been (with Elaine May) a cutting satirist. As a Broadway director he was known as a Midas: everything he directed became a hit. His first film, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, proved...
...Sweden's Bjoern Perm, 24, a 5-ft. 11-in., 159-lb. university student from Stockholm, rode, fenced, shot, swam and ran his way to victory in the modern pentathlon, a quasi-military test of skill and stamina that many experts consider to be even more demanding than the decathlon. After four days of brutal competition, Perm ran 4,000 meters across country in 14 min. 25.7 sec. to edge Hungary's Andras Balczo for the gold medal by the thin margin of 11 points...