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Critic Malcolm Cowley provides some humor, purring out cultured inanities at the behest of two student interviewers. To Cowley and his interviewers literature appears to be a collection of names and decades. In one daring tautology, Cowley concludes that the key to the Golden Twenties was that its writers "weren't burdened with all the rules and precepts and great examples that were more or less imposed on the writers who followed them...
...been known to lapse for long into total silence. Yet throughout 1965 he was unwontedly and unhappily subdued in the shadow of a center-stage President. Not until January did Humphrey finally find an effectual and demanding outlet for his energies. It was then, at Lyndon Johnson's behest, that the Vice President publicly helped shoulder the increasing burdens of the war in Viet...
Despite ancient animosities, political rivalries and the Viet Nam war, 24 non-Communist Asian nations from Iran to Western Samoa are banding together for their own economic development -largely at the behest of the United Na tions Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. "The river is a psy chological rallying point," says U Nyun, ECAFE executive secretary. "Countries that normally bicker can work together. The Mekong project holds the seeds -perhaps the only really promising seeds -for abiding peace in Southeast Asia...
...Economic growth has been held at nearly 10% a year, one of the highest rates in the world. Politically, Sánchez chose innovation. He elevated dozens of young, energetic officials to high posts. For the first time, the legislature was called into three special sessions. At his behest, it created a permanent civil rights commission and reformed electoral procedures in order to stimulate political activity...
...behest, Queen Elizabeth suddenly commuted the death sentence of two Rhodesian blacks convicted of set ting houses afire and awaiting execution in a Salisbury prison. The hope was that the voice of the Queen would stir the fire of revolt in Smith's prison authorities, but that hope seemed faint at best. Shrugging off an official warning that executing the two "loyal subjects of the Queen" would be the same thing as murder, Smith made the obvious reply. Wilson, he charged, was trying to "embroil Her Majesty in politics," something that Prime Ministers do at a risk to themselves...