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...finest and riskiest poems is "The Fiend," which Dickey talked about in Richard Tillinghast's English C section. This poem depicts a voyeur in action...
...their efforts to assemble all their riskiest cases for safekeeping, the Germans had unwittingly hand-picked a team of escape artists. The infectious combination of earnest British perfidy and unscrupulous Yankee brashness lets the Nazis realize that something is going on under their noses, but with all the rowdy hubba-hubba that fills the compound, they do not guess that it is going on under their feet as well. Platoons of men are down in the dark earth burrowing a tunnel toward the surrounding forest. Brains of the operation is Big X (Richard Attenborough), a leader of past breakouts...
...Moscow, Ulbricht plunged desperately ahead with attempts to salvage his trouble-racked seven-year plan. Accentuating East Germany's dependent status as an industrial satellite of Russia, he eliminated production of virtually all goods that are not needed for export to the Communist bloc. Ulbricht's riskiest move has been to demand more work for less pay. It was his previous boosting of work norms that triggered the 1953 uprising, and today East German workers are again threatening to strike. Says one: "We will go to prison, probably, but what's the difference? We are already...
...supported by culture-loving subscribers, ANTA produced many worthy revivals and experimental shows, and even an original hit, Mrs. McThing, but found itself continually broke. Last fall ANTA decided to make some money by investing not in Wall Street, the race track or a brewery, but in the riskiest business of all-Broadway. The results were disastrous...
Their digging resulted in the roughest, riskiest exposé ever carried by the 107-year-old Oregonian. It earned them the American Newspaper Guild's 1957 Heywood Broun Award.* And last week, as a grand jury handed down indictments in Portland, as the mighty Dave Beck fell off his high wagon, Turner and Lambert reaped the even greater satisfaction of knowing that their unlikely tale of local corruption had unfolded into a major national story...