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...President Kennedy announced back in January that he expected a modest budget surplus of about $500 million in 1962-63, the few faint cheers were drowned out by a storm of skepticism. The President's expectations were based on more ifs than Rudyard Kipling had in his famous poem: if the economy improved its pace, if Government spending did not rise, if Congress enacted higher postal rates when the Administration wanted them, if the farm bill was passed and had a chance to cut costs. It was if, if, if-and hardly any of the ifs turned...
...dressing room. "And I'm also the double greatest cause I took him out in four just like I said. If it were up to me I'd fight Liston right now. I'll go put on my trunks and fight him right now." Still another poem recited by yon Cassius...
...lollipop and an affectionate puppydog. For an unguarded moment he is charmed; but the girl goes her way, and the play-wright reflects that perhaps the candy only reveals her materialism, and the dog her slavish dependence on pets. He becomes hopelessly despairing, then immeasurably compassionate. He writes a poem...
Planted Cronies. If the Chinese in Peking think that Khrushchev blundered, are there any "Chinese" in Moscow who think so too? Publication in Pravda of a year-old anti-Stalin poem by Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME, Nov. 2) was noted with fascination by some students of Soviet policy; to them it suggested that Khrushchev's crowd was issuing a warning to its Stalinist enemies. In addition, Izvestia stated emphatically that the Soviet decision to withdraw the Cuba missiles was "the only correct one in the prevailing circumstances," which sounded as if a defense of the move had become necessary. Finally...
Robert Lowell: "A poet of great originality and power who has, extraordinarily, developed instead of repeating himself. His poems have a wonderful largeness and grandeur, exist on a scale that is unique today. You feel before reading any new poem of his the uneasy expectation of perhaps encountering a masterpiece...