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With his China initiative, the President is also taking some satirical fire from the right. William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader and conservative thinker somewhat abaft of Coriolanus, regards the Peking trip with such horror that he instituted a reader contest to rename the President's plane, now called The Spirit of '76. That title, Loeb asserted, is totally inappropriate...
...seems to me that formal versification is absolutely necessary to poetry," he observes, "because it's the assurance to the reader that the poet is at least in temporary command of the disorder out there and of the disorder inside himself. Without that order, poetry begins to go off in all directions at once; it dissolves...
...contending opinions. Black-more frequently in the majority-would crisply muster the facts and reasoning that led to the court's ruling, in seemingly impregnable logic. Then came Harlan, calmly and subtly pinpointing flaws in the majority viewpoint, exhaustively detailing his own different but fully persuasive logic. The reader was sometimes left dazzled and confused-but also enlightened about the nature of law as a living language of civilized society...
Buoyed by favorable reader response, Gelb has now commissioned a staffer to devote full time to a single city block in Manhattan. The man is John Corry, a veteran journalist and author (The Manchester Affair), who had just returned to the Times after three years of writing for Harper...
...sense. He seems to be an uneasy collection of disparate traits acquired from the men who have been most central in his life. He seems, indeed, to crave other people's personalities in much the way the Pedersens craved morphine, whisky and candy. Neither the author nor the reader is ever quite sure just what Vogel is-a series of conditioned reflexes linked to some sort of life force; a mechanistic particle of personalities; a maddened poseur. Only Vogel's wife suggests that her husband consists of "real units of personality, tissue or atoms or nerve cells, bits...