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Aldoshin, who was a member of the disarmament conference last summer, and Vladimir Brykin, senior political advisor to the USSR mission to the United Nations, presented the official Soviet position on the major issues of the General Assembly's XVIIth session in a discussion sponsored by the international Relations Council...
...other words, Mr. Auden's verse is becoming more intense by concentration upon political symbolism, but its intensity does not penetrate the consciousness of the mass of readers because his syntax is still involved, his imagery still "metaphysical" in the XVIIth century sense. Nevertheless, there is vast improvement in communication over previous volumes. One can understand these poems. The poetry of Auden is no longer the Chinese puzzle it was when it first began and when an aristocratic damsel in his "literary senate" gave her applause in those incomparable words, too funny to be other than apocryphal: "I feel...
Moliere, said he, was in the XVIIth century to France what Shakespeare was to England and Cervantes to Spain. Above all a Frenchman and a Parisian, a bourgeois of Paris, we continually find this vein running through all his work. Like so many other great writers he was a bourgeois, his father being "tapisseir du roi." His parents, being ambitious for their son, sent him to the College of Clermont; but he disappointed their hopes, and at the age of twenty-one took to the stage-a profession at this time of extreme ill repute. Alone in the world...
...SCHILLING.FRENCH 6.- Students are requested to bring Bernardin, Morceaux choisis des class: ques du XVII siecle, during the lectures on the XVIIth century...
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