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...letters and notebooks, which he quotes and paraphrases at great length in the text. In his account of Hawthorne's visit to Niagara Falls in 1832, he mentions, somewhat fastidiously, that the author felt an initial sense of disappointment upon viewing the falls; but he makes no attempt to assess Hawthorne's deeper reaction to Niagara, which represented, for many mid-nineteenth-century Americans, the symbol of the American sublime. Towards the end of the book, Mellow describes Hawthorne's increasingly reclusive nature on the basis of remarks from his letters, but he offers no explanation for the change...
...College's Administration toward the Committee on Housed and Undergraduate Life (CHUL). The straw that broke the camel's back is the way the Administration dealth with the recent kiosk/bulletin board legislation. At the regularly schedulaed CHUL meeting of May 5, 1980, a motion was made to assess a $25 fine for postering anywhere except on official University bulletin boards. The only mention of new bulletin boards was: "The University plans to provide bulletin boards in the Yard where posters may be placed as an alternative...
That kind of well-meant advice illustrates a weakness common to several members of Reagan's "family." Not only do they lack national and international experience, they have been so close to Reagan for so long that they have trouble stepping back to assess him critically. Meese is no meek yes-man. But as Reagan's loyal chief of staff in Sacramento, he grew comfortable with the Governor by stilling rather than stirring up waves. His status with Reagan is secure. Reagan was once asked, given just one telephone call, whom he would dial in a crisis...
...fact was that Reagan was there at all. Attending the meeting were the leaders of a new political movement: evangelical-fundamentalist preachers dedicated to herding conservative Christians to the polls in the hope that most of them will vote for Reagan. The strength of that movement is difficult to assess. But in an election expected by both sides to be extremely close, it is one of several factors that just might tip the balance in states like Ohio and IIlinois, and it definitely could have an influence in some scattered local races...
Against this background, the Administration was still trying to assess a speech by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini two weeks ago, in which he listed conditions for the hostages' release without demanding an apology by the U.S. for its past conduct in Iran. Some American officials speculated that Khomeini dropped the demand so that his supporters could reinstate the issue as a bargaining tactic. Others felt that Khomeini may simply have forgotten to mention the point. Confessed one State Department analyst: "The man continues to mystify...