Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four sonnets by the sixteenth century Spanish poets Gongora and Quevedo. I say versions because I do not think these poems belong in the class which Lowell described as imitations in the preface to his 1961 volume. There he concentrated on the transmission of tone, quoting Boris Pasternak's remark about the usual translator's sacrifice of tone to literal meaning. He then cautioned us to read Imitations as a book of original poems, with the communication of the tone, or of a tone, of their European ancestors as the major goal. Anyone who examines in French the Villon...
Many Greeks say that King Constantine chose Panayotis Kanellopoulos to head a new Greek Cabinet last week because Kanellopoulos has no children. The significance of the remark is that the new Premier's chief rival, George Papandreou, 79, a former Premier of Greece and the head of the powerful Center Union Party, is the father of the enfant terrible of Greek politics. His son Andreas, 48, who sits in the Greek Parliament, is the King's most relentless critic, an unpredictable, highly ambitious leftist who once headed the department of economics at the University of California at Berkeley...
Obviously this required extensive camera work inside control towers and airplane cockpits during flight, which is not normally permitted by the Federal Aviation Agency. But FAA Administrator William F. McKee granted a sweeping O.K. with the remark: "It's about time that somebody did something to let the people know what's going on up there." With the full cooperation of TWA, Senior Editors Peter Bird Martin and Marshall Loeb began the task of showing what's going on up there...
...Bank of the U.S. that if he wished the Senator's help against an attack on the bank, "it may be well to send the usual retainers." Big businessmen often "bought" themselves Senators by bribing the state legislatures, which at that time elected them, leading Mark Twain to remark: "I think I can say and say with pride that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than anywhere in the world...
Conniff and Considine tactfully avoided mentioning Dallas and deleted an exuberant remark Jackie made praising Bobby: "I'd jump out of the window for him." Conniff is so pleased with the interview that he plans to run it again in the Easter Sunday issue...