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...presidential inauguration, blinking in the cold sunlight like Tiresias. the blind seer of old, he took a great bard's ancient place beside the spiritual and temporal princes of his world. The voice, as it was whenever he "said" his verses, seemed far from poetic-dry, spare, matter-of-fact. But in the silence that followed any poem Frost spoke, an attentive listener was likely to find himself still a captive of its cadences. "The land was ours before we were the land...
...President, Prophet, Seer, Revelator and Trustee-in-Trust of the Mormons -as the ''peculiar people" call their lead-is the living oracle of God to whom Lord reveals whatever is necessary for the conduct of the church." Last week in Salt Lake City, nearly 500 business and civic leaders, representing Judaism and a dozen Christian churches, gathered at a testimonial banquet honoring the ninth man in Mormon history to be in direct communication with God. He David Oman McKay, 89, a kindly ascetic who has presided over the most astonishing decade of growth that the Church of Jesus...
...Soviet dam, then threw a pass for the game's only touchdown. After swimming and dining with Khrushchev, Udall said that the Russian Premier had challenged the U.S. to an "energy race." Accompanying Udall to Russia was Poet Robert Frost, 88, whom the Secretary had adopted as his seer ("Udall is poetry-struck," says Frost). Frost chatted with schoolchildren, appeared on TV, talked poetry into the night with young Russians at a cafe while a jazz trio blared away. When Frost suffered a stomach upset, Khrushchev sent over two doctors, then came himself for an hour-long discussion...
...born rebel, and by the time he was 13, he was exasperated alike by the provincial dreariness of Charleville and the tyranny of his mother. In a heavily underscored entry in his diary, he formulated his doctrine: the poet should be a revolutionary and antiChristian, a seer and a magician, "the great sufferer, the great criminal, the great damned-the supreme savant." This was to be achieved by "the systematic upheaval of all the senses." At 16, he fled to Paris...
...CRIMSON has sent its seer in Pnom Penh his annual retainer, and, in return, he has mailed us the following prophecy...