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...should have read our Kipling prior to the Paris summit collapse and when the spirit of Camp David prevailed. In 1898 he published The Truce of the Bear, containing the line, ". . . the bear that walks like a man!" The poem tells of a clawed and blinded old hunter who says...
...they held Boris Pasternak's funeral outside Moscow. Though the newspapers printed no word of it. 1,500 people came [TIME, June 13]. Though nothing of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago has ever been published in Russia, a single unknown young person stepped forward and began reciting a poem from Zhivago called 'Hamlet.' As he recited, voice after voice joined in until it seemed the whole crowd was reciting together." With that, Nabokov wound up the conference by reading the poem, which might have been written for West Berlin's brooding friends of freedom...
...less valuable, "other considerations are more important." In a letter to the Times, former Home Secretary Chuter Ede reminded the bishop that his Clough quotation had been taken out of context-that the poet had really meant just the opposite. The lines that follow it in the poem, ironically titled The Latest Decalogue...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). What could have been a conventional Brief Encounter sort of romance is turned into an intensely moving, if occasionally slow, cinematic poem, largely thanks to its Hiroshima setting, where yesterday's nightmare mingles with the irresistible charms of newly growing life...
...Christopher Smart, a mad 18th century English poet, remarked of the cat, in the most wonderful poem ever written on that elusive animal, "he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon." In less poetic terms, the cat has the power of teaching manners to men when they are still children and most need the lesson. Unlike the dog ("beloved of hypocrites," as the astute aelurophile, Charles Baudelaire, observed), the cat will not tolerate abuse, and thus remains master in its own or anyone else's house...