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...emotions are caged in an iron ordinariness of language, and the cage is caged in an intricate grille of rhyme and meter. By dint of prodigious effort and still more prodigious skill, Larkin marvelously merges form and content. The bars and his imprisoned emotions disappear; in their stead a poem stands...
...falling prices. Professionals thus sold an estimated 100,000 shares short, borrowing the stock to sell at a high price and figuring to repay it at a lower price. But after Dec. 3, the first date on which investors could take capital gains, the price went higher in stead of lower, forcing short sellers to scramble to cover their losses and sending the stock even higher. Many bro kers, fearing that Comsat could be riding for a fall, got on the telephones last week to warn their customers away...
...Matthew's were accustomed to using grape juice instead of wine at their Communion services, and were willing to adopt the other churches' usage of ordinary loaf bread instead of unleavened wafers. The Presbyterians, in turn, agreed to take Communion at the altar rail in stead of in the pew. Both the Methodists and the Presbyterians accepted the phrasing of the Apostles' Creed used at St. Matthew's-Christ descended into Hell (rather than Hades), and the Holy Catholic (not Christian) Church...
Keating is not without his own as sets. His close association with his popular Republican colleague, Jacub Javits, puts him in good stead with a large part of the electorate, including many normally Democratic Jewish voters. And just as Kennedy is capitalizing on Johnson's popularity ("Get on the Johnson, Humphrey, Kennedy Team" is plastered all over New York's buses), so Keating capitalizes on that of Javits (posters of Keating and Javits together, with Javits saying "Keep my Teammate," are located in many New York subway stations...
Slovak was happy. Promoter Stead was happy. Reno officials were happy. "This was just a dry run," said one. "This is going to be the king of all motor sports." Most important, the nervous observers from the FAA were happy-or relieved anyhow. In nine days of racing, nobody had been killed or even seriously injured-unless you count a careless mechanic who fell off a parked plane and broke...