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writing or translating by the editors was to
be
done without payment, Dr.
Watson's participation under the name of W. C. Blum being contrived with
"a quietness amounting to scandal." And payment was computed in amounts
that are multiples of five. For example, as stated in our manual of pro·
cedure:
"if
a manuscript counts up to $15.98 or $16.01 or $18.01, the
writer should be paid $20.00; and
if
same is more than $90.00 it should
be
computed in multiples of ten."
Writing is an undertaking for the modest. Those of us employed at
The Dial,
felt that the devisers of the organization we represented could do
better than we, what we were trying to do, and we always will feel,
Tilt
Dial's·
strength of purpose toward straightness, crispness, and usefulness.
"If,"
as has been said, "it had rough seas to navigate because it chose to
sail uncharted zones, the structure was the better tested"; and we
think
back
with gladness to the days when we were part of it.
Poems
Randall Jarrell
(This is supposed to be a parody of Miss Marianne Moore's poetry.
I hope that it is accurate, admiring, and a little critical.)
THE COUNTRY WAS
all hills and all interesting-in one field
by a barn, by a haystack, were two 'real
brand new lambs',
three ewes too 'uncertain of their
election' to judge at all or require
much more than
lambs-believed in by another
lamb, perhaps, but not by other
things. The 'impossible once-or-twice-seen'
freak flower 'marred by dew', smashed by tears, seems
healthy by
this starveling fantastic sawdust
changeling rag-Sambo scare-crow cur, with its
embryo's
generalized pink pig's head-un·
suited for earth, as anyone