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...turf in Connacht and self-consciously schooling himself to be a poet of the peasants. But as Stephen Spender once noted, the calculated lyricism of "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" suggests "the image of a young man reclining on a yellow satin sofa...
...which proves that if something is good, it has nothing to do with how the critic feels." What disturbs Kronenberger about Broadway today is that it "has become so dependent on adaptations as opposed to original plays. Adaptations almost always lose something. It's like cutting up a sofa to make a chair...
...quota has produced a rush by farmers to grow sugar cane, and Florida hopes for a 20% rise in its sugar quota. Floridians support the nation's biggest dog-racing industry and train a big share of its trotting horses in such sun-drenched towns as Ocala, where Sofa Manufacturer Bernard Castro is a leading horse breeder...
Flopping down on a green sofa, Kennedy sorted out a clutch of papers-a memo from the Brookings Institution on transition of Government responsibility, details on job requirements supplied by Aide Clark Clifford, who had been working with Brookings for many weeks. "Well," said Jack Kennedy, riffling through the sheaf, "what do we have to do?" He glanced up at Ted Sorensen, his No. 1 assistant. "Ted,'' said Kennedy, "I want you to be my special counsel." He named his dogged, cigar-chomping campaign press aide, Pierre Salinger, as press secretary; Clifford as special liaison...
Millar had been on his job for only five days and had never stood before the orchestra, but Bernstein rose from his dressing-room sofa and handed him his baton-although Stanger, the only one of the assistants to have led the orchestra on tour, suggested drawing lots. "I have complete confidence in you," said Lenny to Millar, who had conducted the Schumann work in San Francisco a year earlier...