Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand, In the moon that is always rising, Nor that riding to sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like...
...Warren Eyster, 28, a Navy veteran of World War II, performs his duty fairly well in Far from the Customary Skies, a first novel about the island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific as seen from a destroyer. The trouble is that Author Eyster's book trails in the wake of half a dozen naval novels published since 1945 and never sets a clear course...
This summary indicates one of the book's weaknesses. Viereck bounds from topic to topic, scattering epigrams and insights in his wake. Sometimes the epigrams fall flat, and often the insights are marred by Viereck's sense that he alone has seen the light. His sense of possession in the "the new conservatism" is so blatant that one might forget that Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., had been over much of the same ground in his more-convincing "The Vital Center." There is also the feeling that this book is at least two years too late, that first Czechoslovakia and then Korea...
...shop grew slowly in stock but not in size, and in 1945 just after Wake Magazine published a special issue on E.E. Cummings, Theodore Spencer came into the Grolier. Spencer wanted to continue the interest in Cummings stimulated by the Wake issue with an exhibition of the lower case poet's paintings. Rather than show the art works in one of the Houses, Spencer wanted to use the bookstore, Cairnic consented and for a week the tawny walls and long rows of closely-packed books were hidden by Cummings' impressionistic works...
...nation that started and lost two world wars last week undertook to make good its huge international debts, that come in the wake of wars. In a "financial peace treaty" signed in London with 18 nations, bustling West Germany assured creditors in 30 non-Communist lands that their claims will be honored. Germany pledged to pay out $3.27 billion in the next 35 years. Half the total represents worldwide German debts that started mounting up in 1918, and were finally repudiated by Hitler. American private investors who bought German bonds under the Dawes and Young Plans have been promised...