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Pound is known as the great mover and teacher of the "modern" poets, and he's remembered as the anti-Semitic "reactionary" who hoped to sell America Fascism over the Italian radio. His daughter sees him most clearly not as the artist or the political man, but as a sage so heroically proportioned that he could deal on an immediate personal level with anyone. He was able to order his life consciously, despite the anguish he suffered from loving two women at once, and despite his incarceration as a traitor in his homeland...
Atop a grand piano and on a coffee table were autographed color photographs of Richard Nixon, looking flushed, happy and youthful. Abstractions come easily in such surroundings, and Bunker, looking tired but still trim and sage at 77, was nothing if not abstract as he fielded the questions of the testy, aggressive reporters, and discussed his reaction to the political trauma of the past fortnight. ∙ The reporters asked many of the right questions, and felt that they received almost none of the right answers. Had he offered Minh and Ky millions of dollars to run? Had he urged Thieu...
...clouds came from the north until a great curve of cirrus broke off and wheeled an are beyond the moon and Orion through the whole east and far to open south the mountains of Sangre de Christo, in less than pain after sunset, are pearl and shadow pinon burned sage crushed and spread over skin under nose finally both pinon scruffy pine trees smelling like St. Peter's had a chance to visit Bishop Lamy's Romanesque cathedral and his private chapel, the quiet peace of the chapel was more an expression of personal faith, small moments of calm perception...
...organizations. Measured by its dollar value, half or more of the real estate in Albany and Ithaca, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., is taxfree. The ratio is 33% or more in New York City, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa., and Montpelier, Vt. In a penetrating new book, The Free List (Russell Sage Foundation; $7.50), Journalist Alfred Balk argues that the exemptions have become so large, loose and inconsistent as to hurt all other property-taxpayers and the nation as a whole. Balk cites several authoritative estimates that $600 billion worth of real estate-one-third of the U.S. total-is not taxed...
Married. Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 22, only son of former Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller and his first wife Barbara ("Bobo") Sears; and Deborah Cluett Sage, 20, blonde London socialite; both for the first time; in an Episcopal ceremony in Williamsburg...