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Poet Lowell (Lord Weary's Castle) has taken the more demanding dare. For one thing, as he himself notes, Racine's flawless "syllabic Alexandrines do not and cannot exist in English."* Lowell relies on loose-rhythmed couplets with idiomatic echoes of the English Restoration. Another hazard is that...
A longer-range problem was explaining how Khrushchev, the champion of coexistence, came to agree with the bellicose Chinese at last month's Communist summit conference. In a speech published in the theoretical magazine Kommunist, Khrushchev explained the nuances to loyal Moscow party organizers. The Communist revolution, said Khrushchev...
Roger Blough's upbringing was anything but ivory tower. The son of a poor Pennsylvania Dutch truck farmer, he got his schooling in one-room schoolhouses, spent his free time stoking stoves and cleaning blackboards for $5 a month to help the family get by. He went through high...
Stoking up on lamb chops for breakfast and steak whenever they could get it, the Russians never stopped training, practiced incessantly, and when they could not get on the ice. trotted off to the local park for a wind-building game of soccer. In action, the Russians showed the results...
To help quiet his preperformance jitters and tune up his musical perception, German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau packs his luggage with a few tested literary tranquilizers: some volumes of poetry, selected detective stories, classics such as Crime and Punishment. As he wound up his third U.S. tour last week on...