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Jonathan sees everything as a reflection of himself, and demands that Tina center her world around him. Famous Author George Praeger (Frank Langella) tries to assert his dominance by refusing to get involved. He sees himself as a cool, invulnerable man irresistible to women-but he is unable to deal with the women he attracts. Instead of enveloping Tina like her husband, he warns her repeatedly to keep her distance...
...Berryman is not the Catullus of the Lesbia poems. Most of all, he exhibits a distinct lack of tenderness, none of the possessive but touching love of a Catullus. His poems assert his genius, his talent, his machismo, nowhere celebrate the virtues of another. This is only fair, since Love and Fame is an autobiography. In it, Berryman traces his life from Columbia and Cambridge through an asylum to riches, reputation and religion. The book is in sections, each a stage of his life, and the poetry corresponds, starting brash and young, ending old and mellow...
...Richard H. Ichord (D-Mo.) accused U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell of suppressing a legislative report. He called on the House to "assert and defend" Congress' power over its own business...
This book makes no attempt to deal with the unanswerable question of whether Americans are more or less brutal than others, or whether this war is any different from others wars. But Lane does assert, on the back of the book jacket, that
...does not limit her criticism to New York City but attacks "urbicide" everywhere. Washington's Mussolini-classical Rayburn Building she calls "the biggest star-spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed kitsch...