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...your Essay pairing poets laureate with presidential candidates [Aug. 25], I was surprised to find that "James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter." Why, exactly? It is true that I was asked to write a poem and deliver it at President Carter's Inauguration, which I did. I was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress during Johnson's Administration, but poets are not allowed to pick their Presidents. My political sympathies at the time were in no sense with the late President, but with then Senator Eugene McCarthy...
...edged sword," complains a sophomoric ex-professor. "There's a cost . . . I discovered in the hardest way possible that I had let other people tell me what my values were." A fight promoter, angry at newspaper attacks, decides that "a certain elite has decided that wrestling does not belong as a respectable sport in this country . . . I think it's a black day . . . There is no American Dream. It's a hype, an elusive nothing." A hyperactive executive regards zero growth as the sin of sloth: "If we don't grow and get more profit, there...
...right to privacy. We believe the state of Massachusetts is obligated to protect that right under any circumstances and at any time. If the U.S. Court of Appeals should decide to uphold this law, it will be sanctioning state interference in an area where the state manifestly does not belong. And it will be allowing Massachusetts to take one step down the road towards outlawing abortion...
Doctorow may try to do too much in Loon Lake. When the poet Penfield reminisces about his experiences in Japan, for instance, he seems to belong in a different novel. But the author's skill at historical reconstruction, so evident in Ragtime, remains impressive here; the novel's fragments and edgy, nervous rhythms call up an age of clashing anxiety. Loon Lake tantalizes long after it is ended. As Penfield writes about the bird that gives its name to the Bennett estate, "The cry of loons once heard is not forgotten...
...city"? Solomon knew the real mother would rather give up the child than let him die. Will the children of Jerusalem give up a bit of pride, a bit of selfishness and a part of themselves to save their "mother," the city? Jerusalem should be a free city and belong to all her children...