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Uneasy Stirrings. Now that the FBI was officially under way on the all-out loyalty check, a certain uneasiness began to stir in Government offices and at least part of the nation's press. The case of the State Department employees seemed to reverse the process of Anglo-Saxon law-which assumes that the accused is innocent until proved guilty. It seemed to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of their constitutional rights. Also, the ten had apparently been convicted of disloyalty on mere "derogatory information," which was the tool of a police state and not a democracy...
Answers for the Unbright. But most baffling to the witnesses was the Anglo-Saxon labyrinth for sifting evidence. Sometimes it seemed inscrutable, sometimes not quite bright. The defense counsel appeared to be bothered, for instance, when a fisherman said he had pulled "Wong's body" out of the river-and then admitted he had not known the deceased. "Then how did you know the body was Wong's?" Retorted the fisherman: "Wong's parents told me." Any Chinese could understand that, but it was "hearsay" in Anglo...
Stunts in Drottkvaet. With his alliterative, hit-and-thump verse Auden has returned to the earliest tradition of English poetry-Anglo-Saxon-for a terseness and toughness that his own poems have lacked since the '30s. Incidental stunts include a dream song in the style of Finnegans Wake and an eight-line Drottkvaet, a complex Scandinavian verse form. But The Age of Anxiety is the best knit of Auden's longer works; his Bright Ideas, which have always had a way of stealing the show, this time wait for their cues. For the first time, too, Auden...
...romantic poetry -the rare sound of a horse's hoofs clopping past his father's lonely farm at night, the screaming, exotic peacocks at the neighboring manor house, the 1,200-year-old parish church that still bore, on the sundial over its porch, the Saxon inscription: THIS IS DÆGES SOL MERCA ÆT ILCVMTIDE (This is the day's sun mark at every tide). And when Read was nine years old, a glass jar filled with "black, blind and sinister leeches" was carried upstairs to his dying father's bedroom...
Smith went on to prophesy an "Inevitable" war with Russia, praise John Rankin as "a great man, a fine citizen, and a good Christian," and predict the eventual triumph of "Anglo-Saxon civilization...