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The position of British poet laureate, made vacant last year by the death of Ted Hughes, has still not been filled but, as the Daily Telegraph of London reported Wednesday, Tony Harrison, one of the leading contenders, excluded himself as a candidate with a poem published this week:
The lot upon which it is being built had been vacant.
On a later visit, a veritably complete downtown had sprung up, but it was yet vacant, its storefronts without signs, its windows without glass, not a solitary pedestrian along its streets.
In the hot, humid summer months it can feel as if the entire population of Tokyo and Yokohama is here, searching in vain for a vacant patch of sand.
Whether or not this attitude is morally vacant and ultimately self-defeating, as its critics charge, it's hard to see how anyone who seriously holds these views, whatever you call them, could really have had much to argue about with the America Firsters in the late 1930s.