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...infatuation of a child with his own potency, the love to hear again and again of his power to make the politicians pander to his whims. And like a child or a puppy, those people (you, dear reader) have no memory. Will they recall what columnist two weeks ago failed to call the score in Nebraska? And if they did, and if he'd got it wrong, would they take him to task, and tell him to alter his system of prediction or get off the public page...
...Donald J. Irwin. Four New Jersey Democrats defeated Republican incumbents, giving that state its first Democratic congressional majority (eleven seats to four) in 52 years. Louisville's former Democratic Mayor Charles Farnsley, a lanky eccentric who affects custom-made ante bellum clothes but is nevertheless a popular middle-reader, unseated Republican Incumbent Gene Snyder, who angered the district's 78.000 Negroes by voting against the civil rights bill. Across the nation, a dozen other conservative Republicans also toppled. Among them: Colorado's J. Edgar Chenoweth, Indiana's Earl Wilson, New York's Katherine St. George...
...effort to give the TIME reader the best possible advance reading on the election, correspondents in every state considered all the political indicators they could put eye, ear and mind to. We studied polls, the estimates of knowing politicians adjusted for bias, the analyses of local newsmen, the balance of factors for and against each side-and then added to all that the judgments of the TIME correspondent, researcher, writer and editor. The result is what could best be described as a knowing estimate. We will be surprised if our conclusions turn out to be exactly right for every state...
...have always declined official distinctions," said Sartre, explaining that a writer who accepts an honor risks institutionalization and puts his reader un der unfair pressures: "It's not the same thing if I sign 'Jean-Paul Sartre' or if I sign 'Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prizewinner.' ",. Displaying his long on-and-off Communist sympathies, he 'went on to complain that the Nobel seemed to be reserved only for Westerners or dissident Eastern-bloc writers...
Killed by the Nonexistent. There is an inflexible rule that in a novel about Spain the death of any male character over the age of five must be made to parallel the ritual of the bullfight, and a reader assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural...