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...Hubert Humphrey was campaigning in the Midwest, Eugene McCarthy was incommunicado at week's end on an island off Maine, relaxing and visiting with his good friend, Poet Robert Lowell. An odd combination? Not exactly, for if Eugene McCarthy is a very cool politician, he is also an ardent versifier. If elected, he would be the first dedicated President-poet since John Quincy Adams-and one of the few rhymemakers in the contemporary world to double as head of government...
...Charles's innovation brought waves of gospel talent into the blues field, and at the same time offered blues performers a chance to employ the climactic cadences and mythic ritual of black evangelism. Some of his more ardent followers adopted stage mannerisms in which they appeared to be seized by God; they tore off their clothes, called for witnesses, collapsed and rose up again. The bespangled James Brown's whirling, convulsive performances have even been analyzed as enactments of the Crucifixion...
Equally inflammatory to unstable minds is the rising hyperbole of U.S. political debate. Race, Viet Nam, crime- all lend themselves to verbal overkill, not so much by candidates as by extremists: the John Birchers, the Rap Browns, the most ardent war critics, the Ku Kluxers. The evidence is everywhere. In Dallas, Assistant District Attorney William Alexander snarls on a TV show: "Earl Warren shouldn't be impeached-he should be hanged." Cries Rap Brown: "How many whites did you kill today?" Lyndon Johnson is routinely excoriated as a mass murderer. Robert Kennedy was branded by San Francisco hippies...
...treatment for children handicapped by brain damage, mental retardation or reading disabilities. It has received widespread publicity, and is now being used to treat 10,000 children in the U.S. and abroad. Some of them appear to have responded to the treatment. But while the parents involved have become ardent disciples, medical men have seriously questioned the theory underlying the method. This month, ten major medical and health organizations* stated categorically that patterning was "without merit" and chided its inventors for claiming cures without documentation...
...being reviled back home by students in the streets of Paris. Everywhere he went, thousands of flag-waving Rumanians turned out to shout "Vive la France - De Gaulle!", turning his five-day stay into an impressive demonstration of genuine pro-French feeling. Besides, President Nicolae Ceausescu 50, is an ardent admirer of De Gaulle and his independent ways, and has used De Gaulle's single-minded nationalism as a model and inspiration for his own efforts to ease out of the Soviet orbit...