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...result is a jumble of the interstellar and the folksy. Characters who are neither living people nor vivid symbols traffic in blown-up emotions and rouged-up words. Besides being high-pitched and mawkish, Burning Bright is frequently dull. Steinbeck might have done far better with a few people talking simple prose in a suburb, might have remembered that writers best achieve the universal through the particular. Blake, who gave him his title (Tyger, tyger, burning bright) could also have given him a good cue: To see the world in a grain of sand...
...Communist Daily Worker. Last week they found an unexpected windfall in the good grey New York Times. They clipped out a series of dispatches on life in Russia by Times Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury and reproduced parts of them. Crowed the Worker: "The articles [were] a refreshing, vivid contrast to the daily diet of highly imaginative bunk which the Times and its journalistic cohorts generally feed their readers" and "completely undermined" the "official line" of the U.S. that it is arming only against aggression by Russia...
...Stars. After 30 to 50 respirations his legs move as if he were riding a bicycle. Both arms and legs may move, as if the patient were trying to run on all fours. He may see whole constellations of stars, or orange suns, and have vivid dreams. The patient does not, as in psychoanalysis, prattle endlessly about his past. Each treatment lasts only five or six minutes. The patient may get as many as a hundred of them, gradually becoming more relaxed...
...tension and boredom, explosively punctuated by sudden death. But cameramen in every theater were seizing the embattled moment on film, and artist-correspondents were recording bits of the war's hue and heroism on canvas. LIFE'S Picture History of World War II fits 726 such vivid fragments into a monumental mosaic covering every important aspect of the war and putting it all in sharp, balanced historical perspective...
...asked of Stevens' poems, most of which begin to fade as soon as they are read. But though they resist the memory as well as the intelligence, their delicate, twangy music-as full of surprises as a zither-sometimes delights the ear. Few living poets can be as vivid and as vague, both at once...