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...poems in this volume vary widely in quality. Unfortunately, the translation does not mirror the variation in the poems, since it is always uniform, unchanging, unexpressive. Occasionally, Sachs writes brief, epigram-like statements of a few lines, none of which seem to succeed very well. One such is "Iich sah eine Stelle," which the translators render, transposing the first two lines, as "I found a hat a man had worn/Saw where a stove had stood/What sand, O my beloved, /Knows of your blood?" Neither the English nor the German is very memorable, no matter how deeply felt...
...mirrored chandelier whirls, the trio blares Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, and the master of ceremonies booms, "Yow-sah, yowsah, yowsah." The place is the Aragon Ballroom in Los Angeles, the time is the Depression, and the event is an extravagance of sadomasochism known as the Marathon Dance...
...anti-Buddhist drive. But the Buddhists managed to spirit out of the building the receptacle holding Quang Due's ashes. "The ashes are holy," said one monk. "We would give 15 lives to defend them." Two other monks escaped over the back wall of Xa Loi (pronounced sah loy) into the grounds of the adjoining U.S. Aid Mission, where they were given temporary sanctuary...
...week B.A.A.'s officials were hurling invective at Rhodesian Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky and pumping anti-white leaflets into apartheid-minded South Africa. But other agents were whittling away at the black regimes of the neighboring Ivory Coast and Togo, both of which Osagyefo (pronounced Oh-sah-jee-foe) would dearly love to annex. B.A.A.'s men were also active in the Congo, where Nkrumah sent top B.A.A. Agent Nathaniel Welbeck to guide Patrice Lumumba and advance his plan to bring the 14 million Congolese into Greater Ghana's political league. When Lumumba...
Nickels & Peanuts. On the coast of Baranof Island, Sitka, last capital of Russian America* was bustling with the clack and crunch of a new $55.5 million pulp mill abuilding. Up to the north, Nome's Sah Yung Ah Tim Mini Chapter (Eskimo talk for "strength gone from the body") of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was busy pressing its immunization drive, and Bush Pilot Neal Foster, 41, reported that Nome (pop. 2,000) was having a pleasant day at 45° and that "a bunch of people are getting their boats in the water here now, mostly...