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...fumbling sergeant in the U.S. Military Escort Detachment carrying a flag-draped victim of a Communist mortar shell back to the boy's home town. LIFE Staff Writer Robert Wallace's script (Soldier from the Wars Returning) was a noble-minded but often pedestrian tone poem which confused patriotism with adulation of the anonymous dead. Cagney's usual clipped, staccato style was properly subdued-especially when, at the end, he tried to work out a salvation for his hero: "Where do you go when you die? The book says, 'In my father's house there...
...when I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased," wrote Anne Morrow Lindbergh lightly in her bestselling Gift from the Sea (TIME, Mar. 21, 1955). But writing poetry has been a serious concern of Mrs. Lindbergh's since her girlhood. "When I was young, I felt so small/And frightened, for the world was tall," ran one of her early verses. The poems of her 303 and 403, collected here for the first time, show that, as she grew out of those girlish fears, she also grew to be courageously at home in the world...
Conrad Aiken contributes an Opening Response: Lord, Lord, give us Thy day, that once more we may be the endless miracle that embodies Thee. And a Wal lace Stevens' poem becomes an Evening Response: We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark...
Composer Persichetti suggests a poem by e. e. cummings as a Christmas hymn. First verse: purer than purest ptire whisper of whisper so, so (big with innocence) forgivingly a once of eager glory, no more miracle may grow...
...stillness, and character not spirit. Almost nothing is known about Smith, but his picture presents much more evidence than historians generally allow. The canvas makes plain that he had sailed the sea, that he had seen European pictures, and that he was a stern man, thoughtful of death. The poem under the pictured skull reads, in part...