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...novice. He can talk to students-as well as to businessmen and farmers-with equal ease about politics and poetry. At the risk of sounding fey, he usually prefers the far-out. A New York Times reporter last week described this conversation between McCarthy and Poet Robert Lowell, an ardent supporter who has been traveling with the entourage...
...favorite sons who have not yet pledged their Miami delegations to Nixon, what is better than doing two jobs for the price of one? No one will be pressured, Nixon insisted; but with Rocky out of the way, more and more of the G.O.P. Governors, not all of them ardent Nixon supporters, can be expected to jump on his bandwagon of their own volition...
...complete a summa cum laude program in biology. In its cover story, November 23, 1931 Time recognized him as a sports figure of national prominence. "Although a mediocre runner and at times an uninspired field general," Time said, Wood has managed to win the hearts of the most ardent South Boston Harvard-haters. Even "the Boston and Cambridge policemen root for him," the Yale-biased magazine said...
Other accounts have been written of Strachey, author of Eminent Victorians, but all of them, says Rees, have omitted his sexual preference- an ardent, lifelong homosexuality. The 1,229-page, two-volume biography by Michael Holroyd is long enough-and honest enough-to include much of Strachey's hitherto unpublished correspondence with John Maynard Keynes, a contemporary of his at Cambridge. The letters consist mostly of outpourings of enthusiasm for comely young men, for whose favors Strachey and Keynes strenuously competed. "It was a kind of intricate ballet of the affections," writes Rees, "in which Keynes, ruthless, serpentine...
...gassed as a Y.M.C.A. volunteer during World War I, and his son Clark was one of the famed "four chaplains" who went to their deaths aboard the U.S.S. Dorchester in 1943 -but he was no pacifist. He urged U.S. entry into World War II, then and later was an ardent, vociferous foe of Communism, which he described as "the supreme threat" to the world...