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...friend, call him Walter, who came to Harvard the same time I did, lived the Cambridge existential life for two years. He did not rationalize his behavior by belief in God or in social responsibility, but was kinder and warmer than some who do. He was an English major, interested above all in becoming a writer. He had no use for politics and was outraged by the atrocities of international affairs when he discovered them, very occasionally, in a newspaper. One day I learned, to my surprise, that he had joined the May Second Movement. We met for coffee...
...advising a hasty disengagement from South Viet Nam, last week acknowledged that a U.S. military buildup in the area of Danang would help the U.S. in any future negotiations with North Viet Nam-which puts him close to Johnson's position. And L.B.J. could not have asked for warmer support on the Dominican Republic. While Lippmann has always been wary of far-flung commitments overseas, he considers it perfectly proper for the U.S. to maintain order in its own backyard. "The Dominican Republic lies squarely within the sphere of influence of the U.S., and it is normal...
...they bury us?" sighs Dame Edith Sitwell in the final chapter of these memoirs, completed shortly before her death last December at the age of 77. "It'd be warmer there." It would be sizzling, as a matter of fact, wherever Dame Edith happened to be. For almost half a century she spat fire and spouted verses that perceptibly elevated the social and intellectual temperature of her times. In this autobiography, a thing of brilliant shreds and banal patches, Dame Edith throws a harsh new light on the life of the poet and the genesis of the eccentric...
...brighter side. The ads now identify Ramblers as the "Sensible Spectaculars," and have introduced a number of quite spectacular girls; one ad features a femme fatale who exults upon seeing a Marlin: "Rambler, I didn't think you were THAT kind of car." These changes to the warmer side, however, were accompanied by a growing coolness between American and the ad agency that has held the Rambler account for 28 years: Geyer, Morey, Ballard. This fall the $15 million account will go to Benton & Bowles (1964 billings: $137 million...
...Brinkerhoff said that Authority inspectors only visited the project apartments in the afternoon when they were warmer. Authority officials said they had made some checks in the morning...