Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critic once wrote that nothing was more tedious than mediocre poetry, and tedium sits like a lead bat on this reader's shoulder. Aside from two good poems from Daniel Langton and a garbled experiment in sound by C. C. Abt, the rest of Audience poetry ranges a dusty spectrum from the merely interesting to the very bad. Four poetesses help anchor down the ends...
Dangling Line. Sherman Adams set the new tone and pace of the White House and flavored it with his own brand of Yankee circumspection ("Sound as a dollar," as his 82-year-old father says. "Square as a brick"). Hard at work by 7:30 every morning, Adams takes due note of any of his staff who might come in a few minutes late ("Miss So-and-So," he snapped to a girl who was attending a presidential staff meeting, "you were late three mornings this week!"). Papers shoot into his office and out as fast as his bedeviled secretaries...
...innocent bystanders, had also scored some clean misses. They also proved a remarkable medical fact: it is still possible in mid-1958, after Korea, after Hungary, after the Kremlin's own post-Stalin confessions, for an apparently sophisticated U.S. citizen to be, or at least make noises that sound very much like, a Communist or a fellow traveler...
...appreciate it kindly if you'd just give it to that lady there-that's my mother, folks." Murmured an onlooker: "Chris is a good oP boy, and Arkansas people like a man to be a good ol' boy. There's nobody can sound more country than Chris. He's a good oP boy." Plain Talker. Though good oP Chris Finkbeiner made hay in Warren, it was Lee Ward ("He'd be a cinch if Lee was his last name") who hit pay dirt in Jonesboro, simply by taking on Orval Faubus...
...turn, underdeveloped countries could profit from Puerto Rico by: ¶Replacement of hostility to private capital with an outright welcome, using tax incentives and hard-sell promotion. ¶ Official honesty; greasing endless palms frightens many businessmen. ¶ Sound planning and statistics. ¶ Playing down nationalism, working toward what Muñoz calls "the post-nationalist world...