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...wittily as anybody in his generation about the works of Melville, Hawthorne, Poe and Whitman, found that they proclaimed "a stranger on the face of the earth"-the stranger being the American consciousness. America both fascinated and infuriated Lawrence, and his famed Studies in Classic American Literature was shrill, derisive, but continuingly provocative. The Symbolic Meaning, a collection of earlier versions of the same essays, is considerably calmer in tone, but both versions bear the unmistakable stamp of Lawrence's chaotic, irascible mind. He saw the underlying theme of U.S. literature as the "disintegration of the primal self...
...Equally shrill is the Nationalist Independence Rally, once headed by Marcel Chaput, 45, a former government biochemist. Several months ago, Chaput embarked on a 34-day Gandhi-like fast and raised $100,000 for the separatist movement that he confidently predicts will win out before Canada reaches its centennial of Confederation in 1967. Last week Dr. Chaput drew angry cries of treason after he issued a warning to Queen Elizabeth, who plans to visit Canada next October. "Some of my people," he said, "are ready to let her know-and brutally-that she is no longer welcome in French Canada...
...Italy's Communist paper L'Unità. The news: Royal Dutch/Shell has offered to buy half interest in two new petrochemical plants of Italy's Montecatini mineral and chemical complex, for a price somewhere between $150 million and $300 million. L'Unità's shrill attack on the proposed sale-which is still very much in the negotiating stage-was quickly picked up by left-wingers in Parliament, and it soon seemed to the casual reader that all Italy was threatened with domination by "foreign monopolies and cartels." Ignored in the outburst was the real...
...costumed Indians stretched across the sacred ground of a Utah mesa. In the darkness it faced east where the red morning sun would rise. As the first rays of the new sun fell upon them, the Indians dusted the sunlight over their bodies with eagle feathers and blew on shrill whistles carved of eagle bone...
...City Council by Boston Globe reporter James S. Doyle; an often obscure report on New England railroad mergers by Richard D. Hill, vice president of the First National Bank of Boston; and an appeal for a Boston opera company by Sarah Caldwell, who is well-meaning but too shrill in her enthusiasm...