Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former, set in staccato three-line stanzas and concluding with a jolly exhortation, "So cram your baby full of candy:/What quicker way to make a dandy?," has a gay and terse rhythm. The latter, perhaps less clear in its contemplation of man's past seen as a view from a high hill, moves quietly to its assertion that every crag achieved on the climb is part of the final reward, the vision from the summit. Other poems in this gracious vein are "Words from the Genius of a Place," "Deaths," and "Morning After Wedding Night...
...seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger for Merton, winning his blue at boxing (although a Cambridge tiger defeated him recently), and writing the first 50 pages of a novel-"a sort of complicated thing, in which I look at the same episode through five different points of view...
...stone alike be left natural. Like Wright, Maybeck broke up living spaces, combined dining and living areas, opened up the house to the outdoors, incorporated whole walls of glass into his buildings. Last week the California Palace of the Legion of Honor had the best of Maybeck on view in a large photo exhibit, which Californians hope will spread Maybeck's fame as an architect, and one of the great romantics. Wrote Critic Lewis Mumford: "But for Bernard Maybeck's fine reticence, his work would have been hailed long ago as the West Coast's counterpart...
Wiechert uses modern characters to illustrate his old allegory and presses home his message with intense sincerity. His weakness is a mystified view of history that exaggerates both the stability of the past and the uniqueness of the present. His prose is filled with sentimental, turgid solemnity. But the book will please those who like their religious literature to be a little lower than the angels and a little higher than Lloyd Douglas...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant Eastern view of a fallen woman, who rises by union with nature, rather than by struggle against...