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...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION protest that the EPA follies are only another vehicle to attack it, soon to be filed away in the morgue of old newspaper stories next to past media scapegoats of the moment like Richard Allen and Ernest Lefevre. That may be true. The Wednesday resignation of Burford may lay this scandal to rest; the attention span of the public is short, and the media will soon latch onto another scandal. But what should not be lost amidst the political furor is the substantive concern that the EPA is--or should be--very important agency, not for political reasons...
...Winnick has collected an extensive selection of the letters of this extraordinary man. The impressive range of correspondents reflects MacLeish's wide-ranging interests and his knack for getting involved with the public of his time. He was particularly close to Amy Lowell, Dean Acheson, and Ernest Hemingway. He wrote often to Henry Luce, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot '10, and occasionally to Felix Frankfurter. J. Robert Oppenheimer and F.D.R. And the letters are full of MacLeish's articulate and often beautifully phrased observations on everything from political campaign strategies to the function of poetry. What emerges...
...arguments for capital punishment are usually visceral or anecdotal. Ernest van den Haag, professor of jurisprudence and public policy at Fordham University, says flatly, "Nobody fears prison as much as death." Florida's Governor Graham, who has signed 45 death warrants, cites the case of a restaurant robbery seen by a customer. "Afterward," recounts Graham, "he was the only witness. So the two guys took him out to the Everglades and shot him in the back of the head. If they had felt that being convicted for robbery and first-degree murder was sufficiently different, they might have...
...earthy assessment of him. A little humor or ribbing of Newman, the liberal who lives in an East Side Manhattan apartment, a country place in Connecticut and a home in Beverly Hills could have washed down that goo. Your story reminded me of Zelda Fitzgerald's remark to Ernest Hemingway upon seeing Al Jolson, "Don't you think he's greater than Jesus...
...proposal voted by the Appropriations Committee was sponsored by Sen Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), an opponent of the weapon who said the vote " the position of the Senate against the dense pack basing of the missile that Reagan favored...