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...beyond the election. This week it publishes a 16,000-word A Program for a Goldwater Administration. Sample advice: Goldwater should man the battlements of states' rights ("within the federal harem, the states today are merely eunuchs"), invade Cuba if necessary, insist that Russia dismantle its "world revolutionary apparatus" and retire to its borders...
...team led by Dr. Robert J. White takes a brain, which is about as big as a man's fist, out of a rhesus monkey's skull, retains only small bits of bone to serve as supports, and suspends the brain in an apparatus of tubes and rods. Its blood vessels are hitched to a small heart-lung machine, and fresh blood is supplied from a monkey blood bank. Delicate needles stuck in its surface al low an electroencephalograph to measure the electrical activity by which all brains do their work...
...except perhaps the Mississippi," said Abraham Lincoln to a Times correspondent sent over to report the Civil War. Disraeli was only half joking when he said that there were two British ambassadors in every foreign capital, one appointed by the Queen and one appointed by the Times. Its newsgathering apparatus seemed to be privy to everything. On Jan. 17, 1856, for example, the British government had to read the Times to discover that Russia had accepted the peace proposals ending the Crimean...
...book also offers a few poems interesting in themselves, a couple of rousing drinking songs, some Rabelaisian belly laughs, and one or two tenderly erotic lyrics. Otherwise the reader who is not a hard-core enthusiast will find the collection disappointing. The scholarly apparatus smothers the poems. What is worse for the prurient reader, Burns's Scottish dialect, which he usually trimmed to understandable proportions in his published work, is here often incomprehensible-even the dirty words...
...father alone was involved in more than 50 lawsuits. If history's most absorbent author needed high legal drama, he had only to versify the royal squabbles in Holinshed's Chronicles. For low legal comedy, he had only to caricature England's primitive legal apparatus, from the demigod country justice (Shallow) to the pompous local constable (Elbow) to the wildly incompetent watchman (Seacoal...