Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aiken," intoned the tally clerk...
...Aiken (Vt.) Javits (N.Y.) Allott (Colo.) Keating (N.Y.) Beall (Md.) Miller (Iowa) Bennett (Utah) Kuchel (Calif.) Boggs (Del.) Morton (Ky.) Carlson (Kans.) Mundt (S.Dak.) Case (N.J.) Pearson (Kans.) Cooper (Ky.) Prouty (Vt.) Dirksen (III.) Saltonstall (Mass.) Fong (Hawaii) Scott...
...G.O.P. STRATEGY. "The key is Dirksen," says Mansfield, "with Hick-enlooper and Aiken." Besides Dirksen, he was referring to Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper as a Midwesterner with influence over other rural conservatives, and Vermont's George Aiken as a leader of Northeastern moderates. Among them, these three could almost certainly swing enough Republican votes to put cloture across. Dirksen is in a tough spot. Though he was his old, congenial self last week, traipsing up to the press galleries and sitting crosslegged on a table to chat with newsmen, he is under heavy fire from civil rights groups...
Again and again Aiken's novels echo the idea that love means pain, although his heroes still invariably heed the call of the Sirens. Why the love-pain equation? Like the lovers in Blue Voyage, we are unable to communicate, and must therefore bottle up our desires and the things we want to say. But what if the perfect communication were achieved? "What if it were at last possible to talk of everything with a woman? To keep no secrets, no dark recesses of the mind, no dolors and dunks, which could not be shared with her? But then...
Although in Conversation this sort of temporary isolation saves a faltering marriage, Aiken points out that to isolate ourselves within the shell of the ego is no way to avoid pain. In King Coffin, Jasper Ammans, a young, insane intellectual who lives on Plympton Street in Cambridge, walls himself up within himself; he decides to kill a total stranger--"the final action by which he would have set the seal on his complete freedom." Ammans observes and analyzes his victim, Jones, so intensely that Jones' life, Jones' frustrations, Jones' pains become Ammans' own pain--and self-destruction. Involvement with others...