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There is, of course, profundity here: the twentieth century urge to control, its ultimate defeat at the hands of forces more powerful and all that. But the real profundity is that Arthur even thought she might have been able to control a small chunk of the world; had she read Walden before her departure, she could have saved enormous amounts of time and money. For Thoreau's point, never stated outright but implied in both Walden and the essay on Civil Disobedience, is that control is undesirable; instead that happy co-existence of man and nature is both the only...
...eclectic, mostly finely-wrought bunch of verse, including a section of Swedish poems, from the imagist miniatures of Harry Martinson to the brusque commonplaces of Sonja Akkeson ("There is an interest in Swedish poetry here in America which is quite remarkable," says editor Jones, perhaps somewhat hopefully); a healthy chunk of presumably new American work (including a moving tribute to Cesare Pavese by David Wojahn and a backhanded one to the Irish poet Patrick Kavanaugh by the redoubtable Louis Simpson), and welcome translations of works by the Spanish poet Gloria Fuertes and the Hungarian poet Miklos Radnoti (who was executed...
...late and wide shifts of opinion among voters are possible. Four years ago Carter lost to Jerry Ford by a scant 1.7% of the vote. The Democrats think he would have won if the turnout had been heavier in traditional Democratic areas, so they plan to allot a big chunk of their funds to sign up more voters. They are also relying on a new coalition of unions, teachers and other public employees, black and Hispanic groups that defeated Howard Jarvis' Proposition 9, which would have cut state income taxes. Says Roland Vincent, deputy director of the Carter state...
...issues which may test the effectiveness of the new administrative structure is the use of biological laboratory and office space. CDB and OEB both want a substantial chunk of the biology labs soon to be vacated when the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology fully moves into its new facilities...
...Federal Government is already heavily hooked on COLA. In the 1981 budget, 42% of all Government outlays will go to programs whose benefits are indexed. These include civil service pensions, food stamps and disability payments. The largest chunk, $140 billion, will go for Social Security benefits, and the latest 14.3% boost has added $20 billion to the budget...