… by his aide, Sorensen, all reflected a pursuit of expedience more than excellence. Wills believes that Kennedy’s … of foreign policy strikes Wills as a dismal amalgam of anti-Communist hysteria, reckless posturing, and a disturbingly … still faithful to the myth, Ted Kennedy inevitably disappoints; to those disillusioned by recent revelations about …
Poetry
Painter and Model (I) Because she paints barefoot, she’s barefoot in his painting of her painting. Well, not painting, but modeling for him as the painter she is and gazing toward her ostensible model, splayed nude on a battered brown leather …
… Lincoln. By Claude G. Bowers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. The series of events culminating in the … inside of one. It may be that most of the great Harding rascals have gone un-whipped of justice; but all the great Grant … makes him seethe. His theory is that after Abraham Lincoln died, a complete revolution occurred in the Federal …
… not add up to either defeatism or loss of health. Only two compensating factors were visible: full employment and food … scientists and medical authorities who have compromised at points where in the face of commercial advantage the … fresh vegetables, meats, and fruits to make up a proper diet. It also takes more good sense than many well-to-do …
… New York: Arrow Editions. $2.50. In the five essays which compose “Primitivism and Decadence,” Mr. Yvor Winters has … the fruits of a study begun in 1920 and continued at intervals to the present time. During these years his original … developed of necessity into an elucidation of their short-comings.” The poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Hart Crane, T. S. …
Essays
… Libya, is no friend of the Colonel. In three weeks, a 26-year-old unemployed man named Mohammed Bouazizi will set … live with Qaddafi. We have no choice. No, it is what will come after him that everyone wonders and worries about. It … despite the repression, M still remembers why, as a foot soldier of the revolution, he was an unquestioning supporter of …