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...Virgin, on a Winter Night." Though contemptuous in nature, it is a clam, lamenting scorn--subtly cognizant of the fact that the poet himself is a part of the world he is criticizing. "Lady, the night has got us by the heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when it is unrefined emotion, when the poet does not try to explain theological...
Something Practical. Chatting with Firbank was hard sledding, because a nervous constriction of the throat reduced him to long spells of involuntary Trappism (during one such spell he spoke to only two people in two years). For the same reason, little food managed to make its way down into his stomach; once, at a banquet given in his honor, he only succeeded in getting down one green pea. Alcohol met with no such obstruction, and flowed down in imposing quantities...
...dinner party . . . Franklin turned to Madame Chiang and asked, 'What would you do in China with a labor leader like John Lewis?' She never said a word, but the beautiful, small hand came up very quietly and slid across her throat." ¶ At one of the Big Three meetings, "Franklin had been wondering aloud what would happen in their respective countries if anything happened to [the Big Three], and Stalin said: 'I have everything arranged in my country. I know exactly what will happen...
...supper came. I didn't eat anything, but I drank a lot of water. I slept on and off into the night, and I felt rotten. Finally, I slept soundly, and when I woke up in the morning I felt a little better, but I still had a sore throat and a headache...
...music news happens in New York. TIME's story last week of Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston, W. Va. is a good example of the kind of coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition...