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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Borges speaks of "the advantage of briefness." He sees no need to bore himself with writing an entire book "to develop an idea whose oral demonstration fits into a few minutes." His fictions seldom exceed 10 pages. He calls them "footnotes" to hypothetical books, since he believes in "the certitude that everything has been written." Rediscovery and rearrangement, not "originality," are his objects. In the second Norton lecture Borges assured his audience that the world will never suffer a shortage of metaphors, even though they can all be classified in some ancient, fundamental pattern. As with a kaleidoscope, a limited...

Author: By Jack Davis, | Title: Jorge Luis Borges | 12/2/1967 | See Source »

...girl (Uta Levka) is ugly, and her boyfriend (well christened Claude Ringer) is a crashing bore...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: Carmen, Baby | 11/30/1967 | See Source »

...experienced, chipper, charismatic campaigner who could beguile white suburban clubwomen at tea and rap with soul brothers in Hough. He was a Democrat in a town that had not elected a Republican mayor in the past 26 years. And his opponent was Seth Taft, 44, who bore the multiple burdens of a stiff presence, the wrong party label plus nephewship to the "Mr. Republican" who co-authored the Taft-Hartley Act, longtime anathema to organized labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: The Real Black Power | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...Soldier. The shelling was an ominous interlude in the Vice President's three-day swing through South VietNam, a tour of syntax soldiering that found Humphrey at his ebullient best. Traveling by armed Huey helicopter, C-118 transport, Jeep, limousine and shanks' mare, the Vice President-who bore the code name Northwest-coursed from the Delta to the Demilitarized Zone on a threefold mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Northwest's Passage | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...root, patriotism bore no such scar. In 1578, during the Dutch-Flemish revolt against Spanish rule, the word patriot was. first used to mean one who represents people and country against the king. By the 18th century, patriotism denoted love of a free country, devotion to human rights as well as nationalism. To Stephen Decatur's famous toast "Our country may she always be right; but our country right or wrong" Carl Schurz later replied: "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." Who decides what is right and what is wrong? The Schurz position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PATRIOTISM? | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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