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Consider the case of Conrad Aiken. His credentials as a man of letters are impeccable-40-odd volumes of prose and poetry, a tour of duty as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, a slew of literary prizes (Pulitzer, Bollingen, the gold medal for poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters). He has been a fixture on the literary scene as long as any living American poet. But Aiken, now 74, wryly acknowledges that he is "a dubious horse in the Pegasus sweepstakes...
...Continent (see cover story), Adams certainly had a point. Even before the operation got off the ground, statesmen in the NATO capitals were beginning to press the U.S. for assurances that it did not presage any large-scale pull-out of American combat troops from overseas bases. A slew of Administration officials, from Dean Rusk on down, hastened to offer such assurances, but nobody really seemed convinced...
...ease, style and, above all, sly humor. Though the Irish have lived much of their lives with bloodshed and privation, their tales of the bad times are recounted with as little rancor as if they were retelling the saga of Lugh of the Long Arm and the time he slew Balor of the Evil Eye with his slingshot...
...miseries ranging from a simple subdural hematoma (Dr. Kildare) to epilepsy (Ben Casey], will appear next month as a girl about to enter a convent (Empire). She played the second Mrs. De Winter (to James Mason's Mr.) in a widely acclaimed special of Rebecca, and won a slew of awards for her performance as the promiscuous heroine of off-Broadway's Call Me by My Rightful Name...
...protect her prominent friends. On top of that came news that Ward's Cliveden house, the scene of many a fashionable party and fortuitous introduction, had been ransacked; Ward's letters were stolen, and scattered all over the floor were a nude photograph of Christine and a slew of pornographic pictures, which Ward claimed were not his. In Whitehall and in the House of Commons smoking rooms, rumors began circulating that one of Christine's many acquaintances was a government minister...