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With his ageless, cigar-store Indian's face, his schoolboyish cleverness and his endless role playing-political poet, lyric poet, religious poet-W. H. Auden was doomed to be regarded as the most promising poet in the English language. Right up to the threshold of old age. In fact, from the moment his first book of poems appeared when he was 23 and just down from Oxford, Auden was permanently assigned the prospect of becoming T. S. Eliot's successor. That has turned out to be practically a lifetime career...
...Berlin and Cuba, though they pulled back on both occasions; Washington and Peking were on frigid terms for most of the decade and were not even talking to each other during its last two years. In the dawning days of the 1970s, however, the three powers are at the threshold of a series of bilateral talks that could alter the delicate relationships among them. They could also, by inadvertence or otherwise, upset that strained but saving equilibrium...
...children waiting in front of doors. He held the door for a lady with A and P shopping bags. He opened a door marked "opportunity" to a young black, he held aside a swinging plywood door for a sleek, house-trained Great Dane, he helped a bride over a threshold. Suddenly a huge door appeared, enticingly half-opened, but with no one before...
...than 800 million tons of pollutants per year. Although the exact mechanism is unknown, scientists believe that the resulting dust particles help to form more clouds and rain. Said Charles L. Hosier, dean of Pennsylvania State University's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences: "There may be a threshold beyond which small changes in the weather could bring about major shifts in the earth's climate...
Learning Alternatives. The child reaches the threshold of grown-up logic as early as seven and usually by eleven. Before that point, he may think that water becomes "more to drink" when it is poured from a short, squat glass into a tall, thin one with the same capacity. The reason for this stubborn misconception is that the child is paying attention only to static features of his environment, not to transformations. Now, at the age Piaget calls that of "concrete" intellectual activity, the child can deduce that pouring does not change the quantity of the water. He has begun...