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...Landon said last week, he was "a war hero who didn't know diddley-do about politics." At the moment, the G.O.P. is adrift, shorn of power and torn from its philosophical moorings. If it is to recapture power in Congress and the White House, it can do one of two things. It can permit itself to be captured by a magnetic leader who will sweep all before him, and pull a lot of Republicans in with him. Or it can develop, train and inspire thousands of candidates for all offices-local, state and national-who can honestly...
...instrument of distortion than any caricaturist's pencil. Washington Hostess Perle Mesta appears whiskered and wattle-throated; Dwight Eisenhower looks like his own corpse simple people getting married at City Hall look bloated, ugly, foolish; Adlai Stevenson looks tired, disillusioned, a little sly; Playwright Arthur Miller looks scrufty, torn by anxiety...
JAKE: To me, deep in my heart, Muriel is a never-seen objective correlative for the tortured flaming creature with burned breasts that was the Algeria of so many long agonized bloody strife-torn years of horrible rending aux abois war. And that creepy music, it made my skin crawl...
California elections cannot be understood, however, soley by analyzing the state's ideological schizophrenia. A recent poll showed that the issue most interesting to Californians is "getting enough drinking water," not exactly the response of an ideologically torn citizenry. The state's political soul is troubled, but not by "issues" in the common sense of the term. The malaise is, rather, genuinely spiritual...
...imprisoned nymph, works best when it is worked least. One story, for instance, begins: "Larry Actaeon was built along classical lines . . ." and the reader, with the help of a mythological dictionary, recalls that Actaeon observed Diana at her bath and was punished by being turned into a stag and torn apart by hounds. All too patly, Larry Actaeon sees a lady partner in his investment-banking firm naked in the office of an associate and later that day is killed by his own savage dogs. But the precision with which the story follows the outlandish myth obscures its point, which...