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...category. As Tuck recalls it, the pair first met in a classic encounter that would shape their future relationship. While a student at Santa Barbara, Tuck was working for Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in her 1950 campaign against Nixon for a seat in the U.S. Senate. "There was an absent-minded professor who knew I was in politics and forgot the rest," says Tuck. "He asked me to advance a Nixon visit." With that opportunity, Tuck's career of pranksterism was launched. He hired a big auditorium, invited only a handful of people and introduced the candidate with...
...bass drum and guitar; two flutes linger through each line as backing vocals. Jackie DeShannon appears for the first chorus, and the song becomes a duet. More idealism, but a far cry from the bliss of "Starting a New Life"--because there's a distance involved, a musing quality absent from Morrison's music for years. Flutes are prominent all the way through the song, and the acoustic guitar holds both the time and feeling. Jef Labes' piano here is used for coloring...
...unforgettable" characters. Both young Egan's body and mind seem to bud together. Defining, then trying to name new experiences in his own way, lead to his first steps as a poet. Art, it ap pears, must provide him with the security and faith that an absent father-hero never did. It is a promising theme, particularly when suggested by the work of an author who left a religious order to write fiction. · R.Z. Sheppard
...shadow than almost any other recent graduate I knew. Before I had worried whether or not he would slip and just become another Harvard political instrument who might forget the lessons of Bundy and Kissinger somewhere up the road, but at that moment all considerations of that sort were absent from my mind...
...back together, sending independent-minded reformers either into disarray or scurrying for the center. As Otto von Bismarck had once manipulated German liberals into supporting his reunification efforts, so did Harvard's Iron Chancellor unite most of the Faculty, restoring a certain reverence for his office that had been absent for some time. Even most of Dunlop's erstwhile liberal opponents capitulated out of respect for his skillful blending of energy, manipulation and unorthodoxy...