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...Horrors!" shriek some anti-death penalty liberals. If Americans are habitually exposed to ghastly executions on the nightly news, they will become hardened to death! They might start to like the death penalty...
...double flip-flop, Bellotti started his political career in 1964 as a supporter of the death penalty, then briefly opposed it, and now supports it again. We have grave reservations about endorsing a candidate who supports the state's right to kill its citizens. But given the anti-death penalty Silber's personal qualities, we have little choice...
Both candidates describe them-selves as pro-choice and anti-death penalty...
...most personal predilections come into play not only with the lopsided Englishness of his choices but with his embrace of verbally experimental books (Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, John Earth's Giles Goat-Boy) and of sci-fi or futuristic visions (Kingsley Amis' The Anti-Death League, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence). His list is as striking for what it leaves out as for what it includes. Every reader will have his favorite omissions-after all, that is half the fun of literary parlor games like this-but just to name five: John Cheever...
Kingsley Amis, the author of Lucky Jim, The Anti-Death League, and a host of other smart, stylish and occasionally quite silly novels, writes wise and vaguely stodgy poetry, full of long gentlemanly metaphors but without much crispness of language. His Collected Poems 1944-1979 is, as any bag of 35 years' worth of anything has every right to be, a bit of a hodge podge. There are some prematurely-greying early works of some elegance, rather reminiscent of early Philip Larkin or John Wain ("Belgian Winter," "Retrospect"); there is some doggerel ("Fair Shares for All"); there is some sophomoric...