Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Century's Echo. The new poems do not alter the shape of Graves's work, but the appearance of the new collection may help speed the change in critical attitude toward the poet. It is not likely that Graves will ever be ranked with Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Auden and Thomas-poets whom he once declared, with ringing wrongheadedness, to be unworthy of their idolaters. By current critical consensus, his title to the position just below these five is firm, but "below" is not really the word; it is "apart...
...Stabilization of the pound in international money marts, by drawing some $2 billion from the International Monetary Fund-a whopping sum equal to Great Britain's total contribution to the fund...
...Britain, living beyond its means, has spent gold from its reserves to cover the gap five months in a row (at a time of the year when Britain is usually piling up gold). In world money marts, where a fraction of a cent can mean a fever crisis, the pound sterling's value has dropped from par $2.80 to $2.78 11/25, lowest point in four years. At home, the British worker's average wage has risen more than 4% in the past twelve months, while the nation's industrial output has barely moved at all. The result...
...tedious and unconvincing. Cooper is supposed to be an American businessman in London whose wife (Deborah Kerr) suspects that he is a murderer. It is all very sinister; Coop gives testimony that convicts a business colleague of murder and then, with a stolen moneybag still not found, begins throwing pound notes around. When his wife asks where the cash came from, he mumbles something about the stock market and adds, as cellos groan ominously in what ought to be called the film's foreground music, "I made a killing...
...widow of English poet Harold Monro will read from the works of her husband Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Lamont Forum room. Mrs. Monro will also select works of those associated with Monro's well-known Poetry Book ship in London, including T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound...