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...saner times, The Alchemist would be just plain strange. The battle for high office pits Anita Tockbridge, an ambitious HEW official who tries to win the vice presidency on her back and in other positions, and Martin Dobecker, bureaucrat-alchemist, against the true freaks of a Washington fascinated with the occult...
Pound's mission in life, as he announced in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, was "To resuscitate the dead art/ of poetry; to maintain the sublime/ In the old sense." After the rhetoric and moral posturing of the Victorians, he declared early for a different approach -harder, saner, nearer the bone, Pound said, "austere, direct, free from emotional slither." Then as gadfly, teacher, prosodist and selfless promoter of gifted contemporaries (Eliot, Yeats, Frost), he encouraged the spare, sensuous verse, the ironic double vision that has helped modern poets consider and refine the challenges and confusions of a new and terrifying century...
...this points to an aberration, partly the result of dizzying social change and the restless mobility of a free society, which urgently requires stabilization and saner, more civil politics. But it is not a national disease or a case of national guilt that deserves the world's condemnation. In the long run, it is more useful to try to understand America-no simple matter-than to write off the entire country as uncontrollably Violent. "Edwin Warner
Taking the right pictures is not the end of the process. The masses of incoming photographs are usually weeded through by Color Director Arnold Drapkin and Picture Researcher Carol Saner. In the case of this week's China spread, they culled 2,160 transparencies, selected about 50 from which TIME'S art directors then chose nine for their final layout. Once a layout is approved, Drapkin or his associate Erwin Edelman takes it from New York to our Chicago printing plant-a mission that is necessary to ensure the accuracy of the engravings...
After last year's Earth Day and this year's Earth Week, the next logical steps are Earth Year, Decade and Century. The crusade is at least getting cooler and saner. Instead of noisy confrontations, the 1971 "week" that ended April 25 ran to practical matters like arranging bottle pickups and improvising urban malls. New York City, for example, banned cars on Madison Avenue two hours a day for the entire week. Joining 38 Governors, President Nixon himself endorsed Earth Week, an action he did not feel it necessary to take on Earth Day, even though...