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...America needs no other counsel than the inspiration that she will draw from the ideals upheld by the founders of her nation and the unique achievements of her glorious past. It is important for all the world that she succeeds. I want, on the occasion of the Bicentennial, to convey to the American people the warmest wishes of the Turkish nation for the further pursuit of the ideals of their great democracy...
Spender became "spiritually" engaged by the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War and went to Spain as a reporter in the winter of 1936. As an "independent witness" he hoped to use his poetry to convey what he believed to be the meaning of the Fascist-Anti-Fascist struggle, in which he saw the fundamental moral issues of liberty, equality and justice at stake...
...convey to you something Dave Crosby said to me just after CSN&Y descended from the stage at Woodstock: "We may be a little flaky, a bit flip, and sometimes we may say non-serious things, but just listen to the words of 'Wooden Ships' if you really want to know where we're coming from...
...White House since Zachary Taylor in 1849. His rocket rise out of relative obscurity to the Oval Office heights was one of the most sensational political success stories in U.S. history. Yet he had done it in such a sometimes brilliant, often halting, and finally narrow manner as to convey no commanding mandate for his campaign promises or any demonstrated confidence in his still disquieting personality...
...erotic overtones of this surmise tinge Gass's entire argument. For he is not finally interested in pinning "blueness" to the wall, but in suggesting what is truly "blue" in the realm of art. Not, he insists, the vivid depiction of sexual activity. Literature can convey only a mechanical imitation of the real thing-and offer a skewed reality to boot: "I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it, a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken...