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...Republic. If only by a drapery could we draw temporary attention away from the blue field of the fifty sparkling subdivisions of us as a now global superpower to spotlight the thirteen red and white stripes of the embattled and once only partially united original states in order to remind us and all that we ourselves about two centuries ago were shaped in a sneaky fencerow guerrilla warfare that enraged the minuetlike martial formations of the Redcoats. It is an irony of American history, as we approach the two hundredth anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, that...
...intellectuals should not be allowed to vote. How far can Leftist paranoia go? The suggestion that the present administration would offhandedly sterilize or emasculate thousands of people is so absurd that it suggests that its authors would themselves make good subjects for study at the Medical School. Dare one remind men that they are lucky enough to live in America, where the Bill of Rights and the electoral process are still in effect? Dare one wonder whether any of the money they used for their research came from a government grant? One hopes that they were joking, but the account...
...York literary society, drunken parties, jazz. The endeavor to write almost seems to subside before the need to simply go on. Even though she was eventually driven to publish her own works in a loft before Edmund Wilson discovered Under a Glass Bell in 1944, Nin never failed to remind herself that "we exult in what we master and discover." The entries from January, 1942, relate the chore of handsetting and printing one's own books, and the triumph of attention, all amidst the background of convulsion in the world. After a terse notation of atrocities ("Bali invaded. Java invaded...
...floppy walrus mustache stood up from the group and stepped to the podium. After a couple of words of non-introduction, he began to read poems from a sheath of white paper. I assumed he was Richard Brautigan. He ranks very high on the list of characters that least remind me of Robert Lowell...
EVENTUALLY we'll realize that the rain isn't going to stop. Saturday's good weather was a final taunt, merely a parody of Harvard football weather to remind us of a lost era. Someone will probably point out that this rain started after Nixon's speech, and that it rained quite a bit after his election, too. But, remembering the simian grimaces, the compulsive wiping of a sweaty upper lip, the glazed smile after fluffed lines, we'll realize that Richard Nixon just isn't in the rain-maker league. Then there will be the handful of optimists...