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...income. The bill is one of the few important pieces of social legislation produced by the 92nd Congress. A House vote is planned this week. The White House has left open the possibility of a veto because of the eventual cost of the program, but the President risks the wrath of the mothers of the land...
...China's recent entry into the United Nations and the potential effect on Thailand's 3,000,000 Chinese-nearly 10% of the total population-though they had given no signs of restiveness. "We do not know for certain which ideology they prefer," he said. His real wrath, however, was directed at Parliament, some of whose members-from the gov ernment's own party-had threatened to block the military budget unless the Cabinet doubled their $50,000 annual allowances for vote-winning projects in their provinces. At a jammed press conference, Premier Thanom also complained bitterly...
...damned odd one." In fact, Wylie was an early supporter of women's rights. But his description of Mom as "a puerile, rusting, raging creature" did little to dispel the notion that he was indeed a confirmed misogynist. Few facets of society escaped Wylie's wrath over the 50-year span of his literary career. The Princeton-educated iconoclast was a prolific writer of overstated and splenetic books and magazine articles in which he inveighed against everything from preachers to pollution to "pompous slut" politicians. This year, in Sons and Daughters of Mom, Wylie turned his guns from...
Sense Over Intellect. Born on July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile, Neruda was already writing poems by the age of eight, although his father, a railroad worker, hated poets and would burn his son's notebooks. Fearing his father's wrath, he first used the pen name Pablo Neruda when he was 15, taking the surname from the Czechoslovak writer Jan Neruda (1834-91). In 1923 his first volume of verse, Crepusculario (Twilight), was published. A year later, he followed with Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair, a book that remains his most popular, with more...
DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD In this piece of lightweight scholarship, Director-Critic Peter Bogdanovich reviews the career of John Ford as if he were anatomizing the canon of Yeats. Ford, director of classic Americana from Stagecoach to The Grapes of Wrath to The Last Hurrah, is an artist of enormous sweep. But he has been guilty of certain venial sins, among them boozy sentimentality and the use of overfamiliar stock characters. In Bogdanovich's eyes every blemish is a virtue, and no detail is too trivial to examine. He traces, for example, the history of a gesture first used...