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Heath's government is confronted with a violent impasse in Ulster, impenetrable problems in Rhodesia, soaring inflation and nearly a million unemployed at home. The treasury announced last month that the pound sterling is worth only 51 pence compared with its value in 1953. The nation is still divided on the Common Market. The color problem is heightened by unemployment, housing and schooling conditions. There are more inflationary wage demands on the way, and more clashes between trade-union power and the government must be expected...
Forsaking the footlights in 1922, Winchell began to pound the backstage beat in earnest for the New York Vaudeville News. He joined the New York Mirror as a columnist in 1929 and began enticing his readers with the latest on what moom pitcher star was seen handholding what sweedee pie at El Morocco. As his following grew, so too did his impudence. Throughout the 1930s, the gang at Lindy's and housewives everywhere sniggered at such items as "Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poet, just bought a new set of store teeth...
ELIOT and his followers thus made the mistake of refining themselves clear out of our common sensibility. This was an across the board sweep affecting all the arts. Eliot and Pound, along with Robert Lowell and John Berryman, have as little to do with our basic experiences as I.M. Pei has to do with Route 66, Dickey holds up Theodore Roethke, the Michigan poet who celebrated the greenhouses and gardens of his early life with simple, crystalline language, as the kind of poet who can bring off the new poetic revolution against these oppressive forces. Roethke is a good start...
While the journal can be safely skipped, the sixty pages of essays tacked on at the end are well worth reading. They all deal with modern post-Eliot and Pound poetry, what Dickey thinks is wrong with it, and where he thinks it should be going. Like everyone else, Dickey has the irrational longing for the unwritten and perhaps unwriteable poetry which would hold up a clear mirror to the way we live now. He does, however, offer some very rational suggestions on how this kind of poetry might be achieved. For one thing, he says, the poet must discard...
...Harvard hopes to pull an upset, the lightweights will have to win big. Penn built a 12-0 lead in its 17-17 tie with the Bulldogs. Princeton, knowing it needed to build an early advantage, told its 118 pound entrant to continually allow Yale to escape so that the Tiger could score five takedowns and a four-point decision. That strategy proved crucial in the close team score...