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Wherever she goes in her appointed rounds of play, Caroline Kennedy is trailed by at least one stern, watchful nurse and an equally stern, watchful Secret Service man-plenty of protection, it would seem, for any well-mannered little girl. But as any well-worn parent knows, care and caution are never quite equal to the heart-stopping hazards that occasionally complicate the existence of a cheerful, mischief-minded three-year-old. Last week Washington Star Society Columnist Betty Beale uncovered just such an incident in the life of the President's daughter...
...matter for 100 days, or even 1,000. True to his plea that day-"Let us begin"-the President inaugurated in Washington an era with a quicker pace, a faster pulse. But in a week of limp response to Soviet triumph, it was unfortunately clear that there are some well-worn ruts along the road to the New Frontier...
...Authors Beckson (who teaches English at Fairleigh Dickinson University) and Ganz (who teaches the same at Rutgers) have chosen very lively illustrations for their literary zoology. To explain the IAMB(US), or basic "da DA," of English speech in prose or poetry, they have picked not a respectably well-worn Shakespearean line but A. E. Housman's absurdly memorable
Travel in Europe follows well-worn paths in and out of cathedrals, galleries, great museums and famous restaurants. The U.S. visitor is culturally never very far from home. But the Far East is a plunge into the strange and unfamiliar. Music suddenly becomes an atonal screeching; men bow instead of shaking hands, sit cross-legged on the floor to eat dinner and mostly wear twisted cloths or even skirts instead of trousers. The straight lines of Western architecture are replaced by curlicues and curves; landscapes become shrouded in Oriental mist; night sounds have an uneasy difference. And poverty...
...MacDonald, American culture during the past half-century has been exposed to the same leveling process which has operated on other aspects of American society. A great legion of well-intentioned clods has materialized as a result. This is a legion that threatens to destroy any highbrow culture that remains in this country; for the middlebrow ruthlessly appropriates highbrow literature and cuts it to fit the well-worn grooves of his own mind. The middlebrow belongs to book clubs that describe the Iliad as "Homer's immortal masterpiece"; he thinks in terms of "truth" and "universals"; he reads The Saturday...