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...teacher is indifferent to poetry. "This teacher is every bit as dangerous, because he has nothing at all to restrain him. ... He makes poetry yield dividends. He gives marks for it. He asks his pupils to paraphrase it. ... Ask anyone to paraphrase a poem and . . . you suggest that a poem is a sort of fancy dress for a statement that can be made equally well in plain prose...
While it is impossible to restrain a smile at the sight of this comical little monster, one wonders how many will smile when the worm, having ravaged the fruit, will have attained the proportions of a dragon...
...ever printed anything about Haya, this last injunction would have been news. Apra had often used gangster methods in politics; it had been blamed for the still unsolved murder last January of Rightist Editor Francisco Grana (TIME, Jan. 20). Perhaps now Peru's dominant party was going to restrain itself. At least the Jefe had given the word...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough tried to restrain Lewis until the question of his right to call off the contract could be settled by the courts. Goldsborough ordered him. not to call the strike. Lewis called the strike anyhow, arguing that the Norris-LaGuardia Act took away the court's authority to enjoin workers in a labor dispute. Obediently his miners, nearly 600,000 of them, walked out. Goldsborough convicted him of contempt and the case went to the Supreme Court...
...Russians like America's Voice? Reported New York's World-Telegram in a memorable headline: RUSSIANS RESTRAIN JOY OVER U.S. BROADCAST. Listeners who were interviewed said that they liked the music, found that the text did "not sound American." But the Voice of America (which has a long way to travel via an insufficient relay station in Munich) was completely inaudible on all but the very best Russian radio sets, which are owned by the very best Communists...