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...bankruptcy of formalist criticism, the depth of its need for some reference to human values, is indicated by the eagerness with which the critical establishment has embraced the work of Harold Bloom. Bloom appears to inject some authentic excitement into criticism--his poets are animated by powerful emotions of anxiety, love and rebellion, but directed exclusively toward other poets. In this baroque system, the task of the critic is to celebrate the Oedipal process through which a poet matures by distorting and misreading his predecessors. The result is T.S. Eliot stood upside-down--instead of the artist's effacing...
...Rhodesia now finds itself completely surrounded by hostile African governments (Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana all supported Mozambique's action), it will get no comfort from Britain. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government not only applauded Mozambique's imposition of sanctions against Rhodesia but also approved up to $30 million in emergency humanitarian aid to help the hard-pressed Mozambique economy survive the loss of crucial rail revenues from Rhodesia...
Coming on the eve of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's 60th birthday, the victory at Coventry was icing on his cake. Just a few weeks ago, he was facing incipient revolt from his party's left wing. The White Paper had warned that unchecked public spending would soon gobble up half of an average wage earner's salary in taxes. But to the left, the report's recipe for reducing spending sounded more like a Tory tract than a Labor manifesto. Said former Overseas Aid Minister Judith Hart: "The real struggle is not between the official...
Lawrence Eagleburger, Under Secretary of State for Management, said Kissinger's letter of reprimand will be placed on Atherton's personnel file, and that a department official under Atherton, Harold Saunders, has also been reprimanded for reading classified memoranda to Sheehan at Atherton's direction...
Harry & Tonto and Harold and Maude, Friday and Saturday...