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...constituency (it is only 6% Negro), his votes last week to invoke cloture to end the civil rights debate and to defeat an antiriot measure undoubtedly did. But Harris' own Senate colleagues have come to expect the unexpected from the new-style Sooner, a tough-minded, blunt-and brave-political tightrope walker. After only three years in the Senate, Harris is already regarded as a possible future Democratic leader...
Religious experience, the guru's widow reminds Paul, "cannot be explained with words." Still, novels are but words, and Brown makes a brave attempt at a nearly impossible task. Even that shrewd old storyteller, Somerset Maugham, chose to avoid a confrontation with the issue in The Razor's Edge; his young American hero found self-transcendence in India, but Maugham never explained the religious experience itself...
Discussing measures for increasing Executive power, he mentioned that in the past there has been a tendency to stifle "brave new enterprises" once the sense of urgency had passed. After the initial enthusiasm faded, he said, the projects were destroyed by a variety of bureaucratic "suspicions and restrictions...
They even smuggled in lines from different plays, such as the famous "passing brave to be a king" speech from Tamburlaine, for no discernible reason other than to provide new sonorities for the Burton baritone...
Unfortunately, Kerouac lacks the verbal talent to match his passionate commitment to the truth in himself. He suffers from a breathless style and the frequent burble of "fine writing." His book must be reluctantly put down with the thought that here is another monument brave in conception but botched by clumsy chisels...