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… to love a line by Catullus: “Calling all syllables!” They’d come. Now they don’t. I’m not sure I need them to. Even a … I read. I give up the voice in my head for a stranger’s. I also give up meat and sugar. Salt and beer. I give up hours … are listening for the words, the right ones. When you are coming to terms. Or maybe the terms will come to me. I look …

… New Rivals for Jefferson The Two Franklins: Fathers of American … Democracy. By Bernard Fay. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.50. Honest John Adams. By Gilbert Chinard. Boston; Little, Brown and Company. $3.75. In the great stream of history, the annals … New Rivals for Jefferson …

… if there was one thing he wanted to have again before he died, it was wedding cake. He pulled off his cap and … tiers of the cake are so pretty you might expect water to come rushing down over them like a fountain. He said he … Shortly I came upon an intersection. I stopped and studied the signs. I didn’t recognize the street names. An …

… when he was born, what novel came out which year, when he died. Suddenly he became a person, someone who might have an … and incongruities the novel is so well equipped to accommodate. Professor Kaplan, who has previously given us a … than a bit short-changed in this otherwise splendid work. I also find all too much modern psychology, as it were, worked …

… by Vernon A. Walters. Doubleday $12.95 To those who have studied the few available transcripts, Vernon Walters’s … Novels degenerates into the usual academic form. That is, points are taken in opposition to previously expressed … illusions across the international landscape (such as 7-26 …