Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR, by Luigi Pirandello. This play is a classic of the modern theater; since I know nothing else about it, I refrain from further comment. Opens tomorrow at 8:30, Hill House, 74 Joy Street, Boston. VERONICA'S ROOM, by the author of Rosemary's Baby, whose name escapes me. A thriller, bound for Broadway. At the Colonial Theater in Boston...
...train, Neruda lost the consulship accorded his early poems by declaring Chile opposed to facism in Spain without waiting for his government's instructions. In 1944, the nitrate miners of Antofagasta asked Neruda to run for the Chilean Senate, where he served for four years. In 1948, unwilling to refrain from criticizing an American-supported dictator, Neruda was forced to go underground. For several months miners and working people helped him evade the Secret Police, passing him from house to house. With him, Neruda carried the manuscript of Canto General...
Better to try and "liberalize" the military rather than butt one's head against a stone wall trying to destroy it, the argument continues. And what better way to insure that the army refrain from rightist adventures than to put Harvard men in its leadership? Surely, compassionate and humane Ivy Leaguers in uniform will protect us against all those proto-fascist stump-jumping hillbillies from the South and midwestern cow colleges...
...right, of course, about the colors." And, of course, he was right about the colors. I.A. Richards wouldn't have said it if he hadn't believed it was true, any more then the theist or atheist volunteers of for that matter the cat who would not refrain from clawing the furniture when he thought that was in the nature of cats. So I decided and still decide that I liked I.A. Richards, and I liked the theist an atheist volunteers, and I liked the cat, and with all its failings I even like Harvard. And if this still...
...other day Kissinger sat at the round table in the corner of his office in the White House, a melancholy place now. Something Chou En-lai had told him on his first visit to China came back with special poignancy, almost like a poetic refrain. "There is turmoil under the heavens, and we have the opportunity to end it," Chou had said in the summer of 1971. That line-that language-alone was almost enough to make Kissinger an admirer of Chou's. It is Kissinger's purpose for being. His deep worry is that the chance...