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...last week George Gallup in Princeton compiled the new data from his hot, dusty pollsters around the nation, and then at week's end sent his findings out through his network. Ford had fallen a notable seven points in the esteem of the people, from 52% to 45%. Over in Manhattan, Louis Harris was totting up his findings from some 1,500 personal interviews. The general drift was pretty much the same-down...
...said to favor closer ties with Pakistan. Late last week Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became the first to recognize the new government. But the reaction in India was one of dismay and grief over Mujib's death. Said a government spokesman: "We held him in high esteem in India as one of the outstanding personalities of our time...
...authors take a swipe at psychotherapy, claiming that its focus on "previous negative experiences can lead to a loss of self-esteem rather than its enhancement." Their rather pat conclusion: "The key to successful therapy lies instead in creating psychological and physiological conditions which optimize the natural tendency of the nervous system to stabilize itself. TM appears to offer a systematic method to achieve this goal...
Largely unknown, he has enjoyed the esteem of his peers. Lawrence Durrell praised him as a major force; Auden ascribed Cavafy's power to surmount translation to "a tone of voice," the revelation of "a person with a unique perspective on the world." That perspective is keenly evoked in a new translation by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. And as a bonus, the first English biography of Cavafy has just been published. In it Robert Liddell scrupulously assembles and sifts the frugal details of the poet's life...
Night Moves suffers from the fact that it obviously derives from a body of work-Ross Macdonald's-that is currently held in high critical and popular esteem. But this movie ultimately pleases, in a modest way, because it overcomes its less than original origins. In its final hour, it turns first into a genuinely interesting puzzle, then into an exciting and suspenseful action film...