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...included the four final lines of Josiah Gilbert Holland's poem, you might have affronted a quibbling press and that faultfinding, do-nothing Congress whose principal aim is to get reelected. I dare you to quote these lines, which apply to Democrats as well as to Republicans...
...guarding against future Watergates, Ervin said that he knew of no better guide than a selection from a verse by an all-but-forgotten American poet named Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-81). Senator Sam may well have been the only man in the United States who could recall the lines he intoned for a spellbound crowd of newsmen, Senate aides and tourists...
...Josiah Bunting, 34, joined the Marines at 17 after he was expelled from prep school. Finding his métier in the military, the Philadelphia-born Bunting entered Virginia Military Institute and earned an Army commission, a Rhodes scholarship and a disillusioning tour of duty in Viet Nam. While teaching history at West Point, "Si" Bunting wrote a bestselling antimilitary novel based on that experience (The Lionheads). In 1972 he resigned from
...first novel The Lionheads, Josiah Bunting drew heavily on his experience as a U.S. Army officer in Viet Nam to describe how ignorance and careerism were undermining the military. In The Advent of Frederick Giles, set in a tranquil English town thousands of miles from the nearest rice paddy, Bunting proves himself a resourceful sapper in the perennial and usually undeclared war between social classes...
...Josiah Bunting, a former Rhodes scholar, taught history at West Point until he resigned a major's commission to become president of Briarcliff, a small college for women on New York's Hudson River. He plots Mark Adams' unsentimental education with the synchronized precision of a military operation. In addition to this main objective, he also assaults a number of targets of opportunity. There are flash backs about upper-class courtship and wedding rituals, a peek into office politics at U.S. Army training bases, and a particularly biting set piece about affluent Connecticut Episcopalians singing We Shall...