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...destroying the poet by pulling him from "the Oedipal throne of his loneliness and art." In other times, poets died simply of starvation or of drink or in barroom brawls or at the hands of their mistresses' husbands. Now, if they abide by literary rules, they must succumb to a kind of massive sociological assault...
Though everyone would be happier if the West held higher cards at the summit, no responsible Western observer fears that Kennedy will naively succumb to Russian threats or blandishments. Many fear that Khrushchev is feeling dangerously cocky these days; but there is confidence that in a face-to-face meeting, Kennedy will be able to demonstrate that U.S. nerve is still unshaken, despite Cuba and the disorderly retreat in Laos...
This presents a great opportunity for a glorification of the Soviet cause, but Kalatozov does not succumb. Instead, when the girls from the factory committee wave goodbye to Boris with promises to fulfill and overfulfill their production quotas, they are gently told to come off it. The film also reveals bribery and corruption in Soviet society with an extremely welcome frankness...
Becket does not succumb to the temptation to build drab hatbox or birthday-cake buildings; he tries to give each client a distinctive building. Yet he does not kowtow to his client's every wish: when a New York company asked him to design a building similar to Capitol Records', he turned it down on the ground that the building would not fit its needs...
...like her hero, most readers will succumb to Author Tracy's finest creation: nubile Candida Firebrace, a velvet-eyed Calypso shouter whose hymn to the Christ Child runs...