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Oscillating Campaigner. For all the admiration of Stevenson's intellect, he was rather indifferent to abstract thought. He finished in the middle of his class at Princeton, then flunked out of Harvard Law School. That embarrassing event was not brought up in two presidential campaigns because the dean, a...
John L. Rawbon of Panama City, Florida, has one answer. A longtime admirer of Governor Wallace, he wrote the governor last month:
In the South, there has never been any secret as to what Wallace does when he campaigns, channeling bitterness into votes by transforming any land he steps on into an instant Confederacy, an instant defeated territory. He opens the wounds in all who listen to him and promises retribution for...
The candor of straightforward literary comment gives us an idea of Updike the individual, the person we can only glimpse in his fiction. His speeches and interviews, full of personal admissions and anecdotes of past experiences, offer an even more personal composite of the man and his interests. Of course...
Millet sought an enduring and stoic language based on large shapes, resolute drawing, deep tonal contrasts. The result was a classical gravity, "a Homeric idyll, in patois," as one admirer put it. From such an angle, the decorative side of impressionism would have seemed pointless, and perhaps it is only...