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...three weeks instead of the customary six in which to campaign. The politicking got off to a turbulent start when toughs at a rally of Bustamante's Jamaica Labor Party began tossing rocks and hit the Minister of Development and Welfare on the head. The politicking is also apt to get pretty turbulent within Bustamante's own party, where a four-way fight is shaping up to pick a successor to the old man as Labor Party leader...
...longer shocks, it seldom edifies. Gone is the romantic reverence that made a work of art an object of worship; now it is apt to be just a household object, a neatly executed artifact. Is that enough? "If a painting does not make a human contact, it is nothing," says Motherwell. "The audience also is responsible. Through pictures, our passions touch; therefore painting is the fulfillment of a deep human necessity, not a production of a handmade commodity. A painting, or a man, is neither a decoration nor an anecdote...
...articulateness they communicate with their elders rather more effectively than less. Most of today's youngsters seem to me smart enough to realize that if the Old Man survived the crossing of the Rhine or did his time in the Fast Carrier Task Force, he's not apt to be unduly shocked by existentialism, illegitimacy or the sound of a four-letter word...
Stephen Sandy's "Arena" has a great tactile con-cretion that works against a generally undefined setting to yield a sense of hallucinatory strangeness; the poet advances opaque ideas in deceptively simple language, apt to be accepted before its difficulty is recognized, as in "into the shifty sand and blank/ sky of us." I like this poem better than any of Sandy's except perhaps the Breughel poem published in the New Yorker a few weeks...
...sons of rich, prominent Filipinos, impulsive lawbreaking is nothing to worry about. Even in cases of assault or murder, the police are apt to stall, witnesses to forget, and prosecutors to drop charges. Thus, Manila barely blinked recently when two well-dressed bucks shot and killed a man outside a brothel, and fled in their car. Then, surprise. Under Secretary of Justice Claudio Teehankee almost immediately produced one of the suspects - his own son, Roberto, 24. "I've been urging prosecutors to let the chips fall where they may," explained the intense, crusading Teehankee. "I simply had to practice...