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...short presidency, for all the differences of style, were the best, or least unsuccessful, of the 1960s and 1970s. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation was a noble achievement (though the programs went wildly out of control). But the L.B.J. presidency is forever blighted by the tragic failure in Viet Nam. Richard Nixon was our best President of foreign policy since Eisenhower, not just because he had the wit to employ Dr. Kissinger, but his presidency will never recover from Watergate. The returns are not yet in on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. His economic policies were...
DIED. Queen Helen of Rumania, 86, stately Princess of Greece and Denmark whose marriage to the irresponsible King Carol II was the stuff of tragic drama; in Lausanne. Seven years after their wedding in 1921, the strong-willed Queen divorced her recklessly unfaithful husband, and later entered a quiet European exile, declaring: "My life has been a sad one for years, and now I am going out into the dark:" Moved by her dignity and grace, Rumanians urged her to resume her royal duties, but thereafter she served only as an unassuming Queen Mother and adviser to her son Michael...
...pooh-poohs the many tragic terrorist attacks by mentioning them only in passings, and he seems oblivious to the repeated border incidents which the PLO knew would eventually draw the Israelis into Lebanon. Is Timerman so naive, so purblind as to think the PLO hadn't intended to use the Lebanese they had so long terrorized as a spit on which to roust the Israelis in world opinion? It was an option they always knew they...
...write in response to the article concerning the death of David S. Braverman '82. I do not question the propriety of your running such an article; to all of the many people who knew David, his death was indeed news--of the most tragic and inexplicable kind. What troubles me is the shape of the article--the great deal of time in pursuit of the details of his death. There seemed to have been a lack of appreciation of David himself. One can, I think, wonder whether events of last Saturday would ever help clarify the wonder of his life...
This quirky collection is at once heartening and tragic. Almost every story in it is worth rereading, but the book is the last work of its editor, killed in a motorcycle accident 2½ months ago. For the most part shunning pieces that appeared in major periodicals ("all knife-flash, no blood"). Novelist John Gardner also sidelines such contemporary masters as John Updike, Donald Barthelme and Ann Beattie in favor of relative newcomers who display "a new seriousness...