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...gives the money? Nixon's contributors include the Reader's Digest's DeWitt Wallace, Chicago Insurance Executive W. Clement Stone, Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick, and 100,000 donors who sent in contributions by mail. Humphrey's finances are run by Stockbroker John L. Loeb, Sidney J. Weinberg and ex-Commerce Secretary John Connor. To raise his funds, McCarthy has Howard Stein of the Dreyfus Fund, his kinderklatsch and a pride of beautiful people. Kennedy's finances come mostly from the family coffers...
Translators of poetry are the John Aldens of literature. They may woo the reader in another's name but, ultimately, they must speak for themselves-with translations that stand up in their own right as good poetry. "A translation must live," wrote Edward FitzGerald, "with a transfusion of one's own worse life if he can't retain the original's better. Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle...
...Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves's critics have not been permitted to examine Ali-Shah's manuscript. Thus the lay reader can only read Graves's Rubaiyyat as an English poem and decide whether it speaks for itself...
...SURE I can capture in words the mystery and promise of my initiation. First, as a reader, you must try to sense the expectation of it all. The Maharishi's number one American disciple, Jerry Jarvis, has told us in a preparatory lecture that Transcendental Meditation embodies a simple, mechanical technique, that it never fails, and that its fruits are tangible as well as spiritual...
...paragraphs and fragments of popular journalism. Press cliches and pseudo quotes from the candidate are alternated until Kennedy himself seems little more than a collage of newsprint. The story is an exhilarating experiment in the dynamics of hero-making, though its effectiveness depends too obviously on which way the reader's political bias leans...