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Forster rejected the customary methods of ranking novelists by greatness or arranging them according to their effect on their times. Instead, in Aspects of the Novel, he imagined all the novelists of the past 200 years scribbling away in matched pairs around a table in a chamber as big as the British Museum reading room. Samuel Richardson with Henry James (for "tremulous nobility"); H.G. Wells with Charles Dickens (as "humorists and visualizers"). Forster in his various aspects could be paired with many in that room. With James, because he had James' grasp of the profound moral and emotional stakes...
...cart, or she uses a walking cane. But she remains among the most thoughtful and respected members of the Senate, her rose in place, her bearing erect, her hair lustrously silver. Last week, precisely two decades to the day of her anti-McCarthy speech, she stood in the Senate chamber, again making an eloquent and pointed appeal to the forces of moderation. Excerpts...
...tubes. One pointed a loaded shotgun at his head and announced that he was going to kill him and report that he had tried to escape; then the policeman lowered his gun and said he wouldn't shoot Newton because he was going to die in the gas chamber anyway. It was a common practice for the police guards to kick the foot of the bed to jar Newton's wound open and to start it bleeding under the bandage...
...gathering public support for the "Free Huey" demonstrations, which, many observers feel, were responsible for the verdict of manslaughter which a predominantly white jury gave in the 1968 trial of Huey Newton (the prosecution had asked for a conviction for first-degree murder, which would have meant the gas chamber...
...pressed his commanders in Viet Nam about the possibility of accelerating U.S. troop withdrawals. At the same time, Administration loyalists in the Senate conducted an effective stalling action against a cutoff of funds for any future U.S. operations in Cambodia after June 30. Often speaking to a nearly empty chamber, Republican Senators prevented any substantive vote. An innocuous change in the wording of the measure's preamble was approved, 82 to 11, but it amounted only to what Republican Whip Robert Griffin called a "cosmetic" to make the legislation "look a little better" to the Administration. The modification...