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Before an awesome bonfire in the South Dakota buffalo-grass country, Ben American Horse, Head Chief of the Sioux, presented Cinemactor Van (Act of Violence) Heflin with a feathered warbonnet and the title of Looking Horse, formally adopted him into the tribe...
...hours last week, a tight feeling of crisis hung over Esquimalt naval base on Vancouver Island. Wives and sweethearts gathered for tearful farewells as the destroyers Cayuga, Athabaskan and Sioux slipped their moorings and headed into the straits bound for Pearl Harbor. The Canadian government had put them at the disposal of General Douglas MacArthur for use in the Korean...
Cities in other parts of the country showed the same anxieties. Scranton, Pa., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Sioux City, Iowa, were all demanding their rights and the Census Bureau expected dozens of anguished cries from the bleachers in the next few weeks. Not all of this was injured civic pride. Most cities get state tax money on a population basis and their officials thought they saw the Government depriving them of good, hard cash...
...Famine." It is the most finished piece in the current issue, and it is unfortunate that only a portion of the whole poem could appear. Mr. Bly's images and choice of words are always clear and appropriate; probably because he has chosen to write about something definite--a Sioux Massacre of 1862. Lyon Phelps' poem "Deutschland, Deutschland," which won honorable mention in the Garrison contest, strongly echoes Eliot in rhythm, symbols, and the use of the device of repeating fragments of a broken phrase. Phelps succeeds in effectively communicating to the reader the mood of fallen Germany in this...
...when verse in this issue departs into the realms of the more ephemeral than the starving Sioux that it sometimes fails in communication while attaining technical perfection. For instance, "The Hunter" by Charles Neuhauser fails to convey even a clear image though it seems to be struggling after some psychological mood. Similarly Donald Hall's "Old Home Day" goes to unnecessary, and near baffling lengths of symbolism in creating a brief impression of what seems to be the dying granduer of Wilmot, New Hampshire. His other Garrison Honorable Mention is more successful in expressing the feelings, arising from memory mixed...