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Abroad, a pair of artistic Americans were cackling their views on the North American vale of tears. Madly unpredictable Old Poet Ezra Pound, 72, predictably greeted Italy with a wizened arm raised in the Fascist salute, modestly named for reporters the U.S.'s best poet ("Ezra Pound"), said of his homeland: "All America is an insane asylum." With snatches of Water Boy, Basso Paul Robeson, 60, a well-heeled Marxist, flapped his brand-new passport aloft as he arrived in London for a concert tour. Question from newsmen: Is Paul in the Party? "I have a right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 21, 1958 | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...expect to be publicly supported just because one happened to write unsaleable verse"); and that he likes to test a poet's verboseness by summarizing stanzas in cablese, e.g., Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper": SOLITARY HIGHLAND LASS REAPING BINDING GRAIN STOP MELANCHOLY SONG OVERFLOWS PROFOUND VALE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meet Robertulus | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...supplanted his master as Kashmir's chief of government. Quite a few Kashmiris died rioting for their Lion and hero. Since then, Bakshi has built a powerful police force, New Delhi has poured in millions of dollars' worth of public works for the lovely, lake-jeweled Vale of Kashmir, and Kashmir's memory of the Lion has faded. Last fall Nehru confessed himself "pained and hurt" by his onetime friend's long imprisonment. Last week he judged it safe at last to allow the Lion's release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KASHMIR: Lion Loosed | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...word that the Lion of Kashmir was loose again, India's top journalists turned their backs on Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan and other visiting notables and rushed for the Vale. But for the first three days, the canny Sheik stayed put in the village of Kud among the snow-capped mountains, waiting for his followers to stir up a lion's welcome among the chilled and hungry Moslems of Srinagar. Reporters found him commanding and ramrod-straight as ever. "I am the same Sheik Abdullah," he flashed, "but I must feel the pulse of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KASHMIR: Lion Loosed | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...Altar for el-Shaddai. Author Hill draws on imagination to describe the vale of Shittim, location of the wicked cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, though with benefit of modern geological research. "A pall of thin, grey haze hovered ominously over the valley and the smell of sulphur filled the air. There were places . . . where naphtha oozed from the ground, slimy and flammable. There was also asphalt (bitumen) for the gathering . . . Petroleum gases and light fumes of sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Patriarch | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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