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...moments when it is all working, when the myth, the irony, and the experiment resolve themselves into some sort of precarious harmony, and the radical possibilities of this fiction come clear. So it is not too much to hope that the seventies will yet bear what the sixties begot. It is not too much to hope that Barth's best work is still unwritten...
Dylan was not the only electrified magnet to draw clustering thousands last week. As if begot by Bethel, three other rock festivals took place in various corners of the U.S.-in Prairieville, La., near Baton Rouge; in Tenino, Wash.; and in Lewisville, a grassy exurb of Dallas. Top name performers filled the air with clangor. But as at Bethel, it was not just the music but the hordes of young spectators who made the spectacle-and the scene. The Now Sound had confirmed and amplified the Now Look, a bewildering compound of acid and sweet charity, an exuberant blend...
...busy correcting proofs of his novel (Marie, ou les Peines de l'Amour). At 60, though syphilitic and confined to a wheelchair, he is said to have married a beautiful 16-year-old girl. In his entire life, he did only one thing of importance: he begot Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III)-and was not really sure he had done even that...
Many a new little life is begot...
...question begot other questions. Does Zhukov represent a new force in Soviet affairs? Has the Red army assumed a new and stronger role in Soviet policy? Not knowing all the answers, the White House reacted skeptically to Zhukov's overtures, but kept open a small hedge on the future. The past, in Georgy Zhukov's case, is also instructive. His hazardous climb from Czarist dragoon to Communist marshal, his differences with the military commissars, his fallings in and out of Communist favor, are significant clues to the nature of the instrument he has wielded with such success...