In Beauty Bright: Poems
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from "In Beauty Bright" In beauty-bright and such it was like Blake's lily and though an angel he looked absurd dragging a lily out of a beauty-bright store wrapped in tissue with a petal drooping, nor was it useless--you who know it know how useful it is--and how he would be dead in a minute if he were to lose it though how do you lose a lily?
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393086445
ISBN13:9780393086447
Release Date:September 2012
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:128 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"
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Fragments of a great life
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Dean Acheson was secretary of state for Harry Truman. He had a brilliant mind, wrote like Voltaire and was perfectly educated. For instance, you cannot read nowadays memoirs of anybody who knew Winston Churchill without reading about Winston's drinking. Acheson does not do that: it is not his style: he would rather let you ponder the deep meaning of a joke that Winston played on Eden (this in Sketches from life, part of his memoirs). This little book of fragments gives a glimpse of how he reacted to the death of Kennedy and the rise of the 60s generation. "We have lived, he says, in the barren years of disillusionment-years when the cry was: What is the truth?"For people who like history and refined expression of thought.
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