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...Your deep subjects, I'm talking about attempts at major poetry, not lyrics or meditative poems, they come and take hold of you... The point is to throw as much light as possible on her, and apparently at some point the decision was made to throw light on the twentieth-century poet, and to let this be explored in a dialogue...
...After the first four stanzas, the poet interrupts her monologue in three places. Finally she dies, and stays with him as the imaginary presence from the American past we have know her to be all along; then he turns to face the very real and serious world of the twentieth century. The poem leads us through her child-marriage to Simon Bradstreet, her crossing on the Arbella in 1630, her writing, the birth of her first child, her bout with smallpox, her religious difficulties, the expulsion of Anne Hutchinson from the colony, and her later life, all over-shadowed...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Jackpot in Libya" explores the ramifications of the oil strike in this desert country-2½ times the size of Texas...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Integration in the Military," the history of integration in the U.S. armed forces, which began in the mid-1940's under the late James Forrestal, the U.S.'s first Secretary of Defense. The program also features filmed interviews with Negro and white soldiers in Viet...
...songs of the twentieth century can be lumped into three major groupings. There are the professionally written bolsterers of homefront morale whose archetypes are Iver Novello's Keep the Home Fires Burning and George M. Cohan's Over There; World War II entries include such never-sufficiently-to-be-studied classics as There'll Always Be An England and Johnny Got A Zero. Then there are those songs which, although unconnected with the war effort, become popular anyway and are ever after associated with the period, like Lili Marlene, Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else...