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...that President Jomo Kenyatta's political songwriters did not overlook during the nation's three-week special election campaign. All through Kikuyuland last month, Jomo's ardent KANU party youth-wingers chanted a 20-verse warning against the abhorrent turncoats of the "chameleon party," punctuating each stanza with guttural cries of "moto, moto, moto!"-meaning "Burn, burn, burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Another Sweep for Jomo | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...poem is no wearying topical exercise in verse-biography. The stanza-form, Berryman's invention, is difficult; the language is astonishing...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: John Berryman-II | 4/13/1966 | See Source »

Sophomore Barry Allardice put the Elis ahead twice in the second stanza. Jack Garrity brought the Crimson even at 7:46, and Dennis McCullough, set up by Smith's steal and feed, tied the score again...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Yale Six Magically Nips Harvard, 6-5 | 3/7/1966 | See Source »

Harvard bounced back at 9:53, as a shot by Grimble was deflected in off the stick of Bob Fredo. The Eli defense was abominable throughout the first stanza, but Harvard could not capitalize on the sloppy passwork, and Yale led 2-1 at the first intermission...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Yale Triturates Harvard Sextet, 8-5, Ending Seven Year Jinx at Ingalls | 2/28/1966 | See Source »

...grisly work in a manner that wins admiration from doctors, medical students and even from his girl friend Sally. At the raid's end, Gavin no longer hears the angels; instead, he hears a calm new voice within himself. He might fittingly have remembered another Wallace Stevens stanza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Death of Angels | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

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