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...concludes the third and final section of this poem with a reiteration of this message, but in language characterized by a hyper-emotional, almost agonized tone. With metaphor based on the line "Every scream of fear is a white needle freezing the eyes," she writes...
...much to fear as she found to love in Maycomb County-and by Maycomb County she obviously meant the South. Of what was fearful she framed an Alabama melodrama that etched its issues in black and white. Of what was lovable, on the other hand, she made a tomboy poem as full of hick fun as Huck Finn, a sensitive feminine testament to the Great American Childhood. In this film Director Robert Mulligan and Scenarist Horton Foote have translated both testament and melodrama into one of the year's most fetching and affecting pictures...
Official reaction was pained, undaunted, and properly free of recrimination. A more popular view was heard on BBC television, in a spleen-venting poem by Programs Editor Antony Jay, which must have startled some of old Auntie BBC's listeners.* Grimly, officials turned to alternative half-plans, designed to boost exports and seek new markets. They knew they now had to provide against the day in 1967 when the Common Market, which now imports more than $2 billion worth of British goods yearly, will be protected by a single, uniform tariff wall. At Whitehall's request, Christian Herter...
...blind seer of old, he took a great bard's ancient place beside the spiritual and temporal princes of his world. The voice, as it was whenever he "said" his verses, seemed far from poetic-dry, spare, matter-of-fact. But in the silence that followed any poem Frost spoke, an attentive listener was likely to find himself still a captive of its cadences. "The land was ours before we were the land...
...They knew and praised instead the Frost who was a praiser of country things-the joy in swinging birches or treading leaves, the ornery bite of a grindstone against an ax blade, the road not taken, those woods lovely, dark and deep. For readers who like to shake a poem as children shake a piggy bank until the coin of meaning jingles out. Frost had pots of jingly messages. "Good fences make good neighbors." he said, and many a listener never noticed that he contraposed this with: "Something there is that does not love a wall...