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...despair seems endless. But through his dream Tom at last realizes that his yearning for communication is his strength, not his death. Woven in with family scenes is the Crucifixion theme; Tom must be crucified and laid bare before he can be ressurected. And at one point his old great-aunt, who is deaf to the others, reaches out and begs Tom to "touch me, reach me...If not your hand, Tom, then whose?" There will always be someone waiting to be reached...
...choose to be eulogized. But let us just recall a thought from Pericles' Funeral Oration, which he often quoted: "The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over the native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives...
Taken alone, deceptively simple poems like this seem to lack substance. But like the threads of a spider web, a garland of such verse woven together creates a captivating world. Its charm, perhaps, is that it seems oldfashioned. Ransom's courtly poetic rhetoric seems antique to the ear of an age that banned charm and rhetoric from poetry in order to come to grips with life. Newcomers wandering in Ransom's poetic kingdom are likely to bark a shin on such arch words as "pernoctated," or be mildly astonished at the poet's unfashionable fondness for bucolic...
...White House, and De Gaulle, after all, does live in a palace. No. 10's charm is the English quality of restraint. The Mac-millans, who lived during the restoration in nearby Admiralty House, held down tight on interior-decoration costs, winding up, for example, with walls of woven rayon instead of damask in some rooms. "I am heartbroken by the result," moaned Architect Raymond Erith...
...hard work that lay ahead. His own sober determination to get on with the job of building a nation seemed to have communicated itself to his people, largely through his motto, "Uhuru na kazi"-"Independence and work." Then, in a sudden, senseless instant, Nyerere's carefully woven fabric of stability ripped down the middle. His army rose against him; riots exploded in the streets of Dar es Salaam. Only by calling in British troops did Nyerere survive. When the smoke cleared, a frightening question remained: If Julius Nyerere could be shaken to the verge of destruction...