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Russell Thomas' poem resembles variations rising from the title maxim, First Things Last. The poem does not get to you by images so much as in waves, amplifying the starting statement that "Seeing is better than believing." Once you have seen you can only go to distort the sight...
...proving himself an abler politician than he was given credit for being. He lasted largely because he has faced up to disagreeable tasks (e.g., drafting soldiers for Algeria) that few other French politicians relished. With gas rationing, unemployment and inflation building up, and no Algerian solution in sight, the problems facing the next Premier appear even less attractive. No obvious candidate has yet appeared, but ingenious solutions were being peddled, including a "Syndicat des anciens," or a Cabinet composed entirely of ex-Premiers (there have been 15 since...
They belong to a generation whose future is unknowable: only 24% of this year's 140,000 college seniors have jobs in sight. The U.S. occupation taught the Sun Tribers to scorn the way of their ancestors but did not replace it with a direction they could respect. From the Americans they took only the easy externals. Their uniform is as standard as that of a geisha: the "Shintaro" crew cut and aloha sports shirts for the men, with loose-flowing Byronic shirts, zoot coats and pointed suede shoes for city wear; toreador pants for the girls with hair...
...before the start of the Geneva Conference. Mindszenty was driven to Castle Puspokszentlaszlo in southern Hungary, summer residence of the bishop of Pecs. "There was a wide lawn lined with flowers, and beyond that a wood of spruce trees. After so many years in darkness, the sight [was] medicine...
...doubtful about returning to the academic life. But his fatherly former freshman adviser, Chairman Whitney Oates of the classics department, had no intention of letting Goheen out of Princeton's sight. He saw to it that his former student received one of the first four Woodrow Wilson Fellowships designed to attract young talent into teaching. In 1948, Goheen got his Ph.D., settled back into the pleasant routine of faculty life...