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...Seattle. Tetel Takayoshi, graduate of the University of Washington and prewar teaching supervisor at King County's Harborview Hospital, returned to her old job. "I'm glad to be back," she reassured her friends. "I was born here-this is my home." But after eleven days of snubs and silences she quietly packed her bags, headed back to Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Fair Play? | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...seems nearly lost- the function of making thoughts clearer than ever words were meant to make them. The more enjoyable poems are the simpler: the richly oriental "And in the Hanging Gardens"; the ironic "The Wedding" (of Arachne with her prey) ; The vampire in Woman, "Electra" and the brave "Teteléstai": I am no King, have laid no kingdoms waste, Taken no princes captive, led no triumphs Of weeping women through long watts of trumpets; Say, rather, I am no one or an atom. . . . . . . Well, what then? Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

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