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...Told Republicans at a $25-a-plate dinner, "I am so proud of being a member of the Republican Party ... We are not trying to go back to the horsecars; we are not trying to fly to Mars." ^f Golfed with two Augusta Masters Tournament winners, Gary Middlecoff and Byron Nelson. When Nelson said, "I prediet you shoot a 68 today, Mr. President," Ike replied: "You shoot the 68, and I'll shoot the 86." The President lost at golf; Nelson lost at predicting. C| Awarded the "Handicapped Man of the Year" trophy to Judge Sam M. Cathey...
...Republic of Letters such literary greats as Henry Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Gibbon and Byron appear freshly alluring. Author Kronenberger can take the measure of bent, spiteful Alexander Pope and awaken fresh interest in "the master of the scalpel and the poisoned dart [who] reclothed clichés of thought so vividly that they long ago became cliches of language." He can persuade the reader that gabby Letter Writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is worth another whirl: "She had very few friends, but time was one of them." And he can be shrewd about such old critically-untouchables as Robinson Crusoe...
Poetrywise, Audience has contained works by Donald Hall, Byron Vazakas, John Hollander, and Edward Honig. The second issue printed a previously unpublished scene from William Alfred's Agamemnon in the same modern idiom which characterizes the reworking of the play as it recently appeared. The most remarkable of the single poems, to my mind, is Honig's Snowbird Blues, in which his jerky rhythm and unusual images create a bizarre and troubling effect...
...Novelist Baron never allows her to blot out the challenging figure of the great conquistador. His Cortés is a hypnotic leader who can inspire lukewarm, greedy fighters to swashbuckle down to their job. Exploring the inner man as well, Author Baron describes Cortés as a Byron turning Napoleonic, as a would-be servant of God becoming the Devil's disciple, slaughtering some 250,000 Aztecs in the famed siege of Tenochtitlan. Remembered for a superior World War II novel (From the City, from the Plough), Novelist Baron has switched easily from Sten guns to harquebuses...
...Very Self and Voice, edited by Ernest J. Lovell Jr. Carefully culled reports and comments by contemporaries add up to a fascinating picture of Poet Lord Byron, professional romantic and "most amiable monster'' (in Stendhal's phrase) and his loves, feuds, scrapes and enthusiasms (TIME...