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...summer of a middle year for Walton Herrick, but it seems to him the winter of his lifetime. His third wife quits him and with her go their children. What a time to be urged to run for Governor! What a time to be caught in the clash of two cliques down at the foundation! Herrick-man of both sensitivity and substance-is in a Nixonian crisis or worse, and it causes his whole life to pass before his eyes. The process requires 784 pages, a great deal of recollection-in-miniature, and a wearisome whirligig of literary techniques that...
...there is more to politics than men and elections and victories. There are principles, and stands, and statements of belief. In a pragmatic America, these principles and beliefs are usually stated-in fact, acted out-in the day-to-day clash of men in Congress, where votes are cast, as well as speeches made. But every once in a while there is a need for a summing up, or a restatement of belief. Not immutable principles or irrevocable doctrines, but some facts and opinions to fuel the arguments and feed the discussions in the immediate future...
After the much-heralded Kennedy-McCormack clash on Friday night, Saturday's struggle for the gubernatorial endorsement could easily have been an anti-climax...
...Evidence points several ways, and the notes end, slyly, with Kinbote musing that he might write a play with three main characters: "a lunatic who intends to kill an imaginary king, another lunatic who imagines himself to be that king, and a distinguished old poet who perishes in the clash between two figments." Kinbote may, indeed, be hiding from his keepers...
...politics, the President has led an economically sheltered life-and he does not seem to understand business or businessmen very well. Businessmen across the country are repeating to each other the published report (now vigorously denied by the White House) that in the white-hot early hours of his clash with U.S. Steel Corp. over a rise in steel prices he said: "My father always told me that all businessmen were s.o.b.s. but I never believed it till...